Look at the timeline of the outbreak in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Look at the timeline of the outbreak in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%932... - Patient 0 falls ill on December 1, 2019. - Patient 1 falls ill on December 8. - 8 total cases by December 18. - 45 cases by January 16, 2020. - 121 cases by January 18. - 1,287 cases by January 24. - 11,791 cases by January 31. - 24,324 cases by February 4. - 44,653 cases by February 11. - 70,548 cases by February 16. - 79,251 cases by today. Right now, South Korea and Italy are basically where China was in late January and the US and most of the rest of the world reporting their first infections are where China was in mid January. The next few weeks are not going to be pleasant. It's important to note that the Hubei lockdown started on January 23, and China is only recently seeing new cases plateau as a result. It's hard to imagine what the stats would be had they not taken such aggressive action to contain the spread, but we may find out given that the US, Europe, and most of the rest of the world seems to be taking a wait and see approach as opposed to prompt action.