This is just as contagious as the flu but has a fatality rate of 2-3% as opposed to the flu with 0.5% so multiply flu figures by 5-6. It also might have twice the incubation/contagious time. Up to 4 weeks. Now multiply flu numbers by 10-12. If you catch it a second time, which you can, the fatality rate goes even higher.
Meanwhile most global travel continues.
I did updates on the 2914 ebola outbreak on the thread linked below. Reality turned out to be way different than projections. Interesting to review and think about in respect to the current coronavirus situation.
The updates are the last posts on the thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3210773/posts