[goldstategop]

No one has died here yet. Still, the FR Chicken Little Brigade runs around screaming the end of the world is at hand.

[ncalburt]

No one knows if there are any deaths linked to virus here .
The hospitals were not looking for it nor testing for it until recently .
The virus spread in China last year.

[cgbg]

Meet some other members of the chicken little brigade:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/28/swiss-government-bans-large-events-on-back-of-coronavirus-crisis

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/coronavirus-iraqis-unwilling-heed-restrictions-200228185814927.html

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/business/coronavirus-business-travel-ban/index.html

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-27/federal-government-coronavirus-pandemic-emergency-plan/12005734

Chicken Littles are on every continent, spreading faster than the virus itself....or maybe, just maybe, they know something....

[Norseman]

I don’t know. I see a lot more “Nothing to see here, move along” types than I do “We’re all gonna DIE!” types in here lately.

And, regarding the Princess cruise comment I made on another thread, the authorities are again reporting that so far six of the 705 confirmed cases they are following have died. For a bit yesterday, the number posted had inexplicably been reduced to one from six, but apparently that was just an error.

It’s hard to see the deaths being less than 2%, or 14 cases from that group, especially since very few of them are shown as recovered yet. By the end of March that group will give us a very good idea of the fatality rate, at least for an older age group. I suspect 8 to 10% isn’t out of the question, but hopefully it will be far less than that.