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This virus, coupled with modern day speed of travel *Could be unprecedented. I don't enjoy your snark, I think this is a very serious issue!

• bilekas 7y ago
  The comment was not snark, it was based on your hyperbolic statement that this is unprecedented. But whatever doctor, like any coronavirus, hygiene and good considerate practices will help. The mortality rate is still around 2%-ish and hugely dependent on the health condition of the patient at time of contracting. Its annoying, its serious and it's spreading for sure. But it is not Armageddon-scale unprecedented contagion.
  • heyflyguy 7y ago
    I didn't make the original comment.
  • allovernow 7y ago
    There are less than 100,000 ICU beds in the United States. ≈15% of cases in healthy individuals require critical care. With current R0 it will not take long to fill those beds and experience the chaos that is bring down the Chinese Empire. Their GDP is shut down. Why do you think stocks tanked 4% today? At the very least we're already talking the start of a potential global recession because of a virus. If nothing else this is shaping up to be an event which will define a generation before it's all over.