Yes and no. 1. This is a new virus, so you're less likely to have even partial immunity (in contrast, your immune system has been fighting variants of the flu

Yes and no. 1. This is a new virus, so you're less likely to have even partial immunity (in contrast, your immune system has been fighting variants of the flu virus for decades). 2. These are still early days so the numbers of infected/dead aren't reliable but the mortality seems to be a couple orders of magnitude higher. What this means is that if it spreads to as many people as the yearly flu virus does every year probably 10-100x more people will die. 3. It's good to keep an eye out whenever a new virus makes the species jump (as this one just did). It will likely fizzle out, but you never know.