[[The Health Department says 700 people in the state have been asked to voluntarily self-isolate for two weeks.]]
And that’s gonna be the problem IF this virus erupts and people begin getting infected- in schools, workplaces, people taking vacations, etc— people will refuse to isolate themselves- just like that nurse in Maine who was thought to have been exposed to Ebola who refused to be quarantined-
Ebola is a bloodborne pathogen, and not contagious without direct contact with bloody fluids.
The coronavirus is a respiratory virus, transmissible through respiratory secretions, which may be on surfaces or in sprays from coughs and sneezes.
There was never a chance that Ebola would become a pandemic or anything other than a regional outbreak in Africa (due to customs that only exist in Africa).
The coronavirus has several properties of a pandemic virus. Whether it proceeds to become one depends on the efficacy of containment measures.