It just so happens that I know an American-trained Chinese-American MD (She is an internist, who is married to a Chinese businessman.), who now resides/practices in Shanghai.
Her comment was that IF the current death rate from COVID-19 remains about the same as “current trends” indicate, 40% MORE people in Mainland China will die each month from the ordinary/usual Winter FLU, than will from the current “Chrono Virus” epidemic.
(This is NOT to say that the Covid-19 virus is NOT deadly to SOME patients but simply to point out that Dr. Li believes that the current “media feeding frenzy” is MUCH OVERBLOWN “to sell soap”.)
yours, TMN78247
What does Dr. Li think will happen to the number of infections, and consequently the death rate, when the Chinese Gov’t uncorks the area in and around Hubei Province (roughly 100 million people, I believe)? I don’t see how they can possibly sustain that level of confinement: They’ll kill more people than the virus itself in a worst case COVID-19 scenario.