I'd put myself in the growther camp. In comparing it to ebola and SARS I think it is very different. With ebola the rate of death was very high, and very fast.

I'd put myself in the growther camp. In comparing it to ebola and SARS I think it is very different. With ebola the rate of death was very high, and very fast. It couldn't spread quickly due to areas of infection dying out quickly, plus it was blood borne and the Congo is not hyper connected to the rest of the world. For SARS the world got lucky there, again it had a higher rate of death than COVID-19(10% mortality vs. ~3%) but China back then(2003) was a different beast than China 2020. Its a lot more tied in to the global economy and overall now has a higher standard of living ( more tourism, more business flights). For COVID-19 which is extremely concerning, based on current medical knowledge is that people without symptoms can transmit the virus, and that the virus could take 14 days to present symptoms. Looking at exponential growth in cases at South Korea and Italy show how fast its spreading. Good news is governments are seeming to take it seriously and remdevisir and a few other drugs looks promising to fight it given a vaccine is a ways off.