The flu is a contagious respiratory disease that's mild in most. It spread around the world, and does so every year, for just that reason. This new coronavirus is a lot like that. Mild in most, contagious, and highly capable of spread.
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But unlike the flu, we don't have a vaccine, we don't have well-studied therapeutic treatments, and it's hitting new populations with no known exposure/immunity to it.
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The worry, according to the experts we spoke to, is that this new coronavirus is in a "sweet spot" for transmission. That's why global public health officials are taking the aggressive steps against it. The flu is bad. You don't want Flu 2.
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Ebola is scary (really, really scary)! But it typically burns out before it can go truly big/global.
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Where is the 2% number from? Is it the calculation based off of confirmed cases vs confirmed dead? Or a source that explicitly said they had observed and tracked a group of infected folks and this was the % mortality rate? Because these are two different things.
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It's in the very top of our story; about 2% of confirmed cases: "The new coronavirus that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan appears far less fatal, with about 2% of the 6,000 confirmed cases dying."
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Somebody should tell Chinese people that spitting and blowing mucus from their noses onto public walkways, and coughing and sneezing without covering their mouths is rude and unsanitary.
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