Well well....interesting news....looks like we have a suspected case of corona where I live...Derry Northern Ireland..
Goddamit....this is my finest hour...I will find this person and source this virus to see if I can with stand it....
If there are no more posts from me you’ll all know the outcome...
Heh, we were discussing at work that ideally you want to be one of the FIRST people who get it, you'll get a cushy hospital quarantine. Areas that have been hard hit (regions of China, South Korea, Italy) have had to turn a lot of people away from hospitals because of lack of capacity.
And I agree with an earlier poster that mortality rates are hard to predict for this, because standards for testing have been very different in different countries. Some are just testing people who come into hospitals with significant symptoms, which may only be 20% of the populations, some are testing everyone who came in contact with a known case, which turns up a lot more positives with minor symptoms who don't end up dying. The former countries will show a lot higher mortality. Iran, for example, probably has many thousands of undiagnosed cases based on their death toll, and I'm betting there are not many test kits there. The medical system has moved with remarkable speed, IMHO, to produce test methods for something unknown just a couple of months ago, but even developed countries must be rather short on kits. It does seem to be pretty contagious.
Predictions are that this will have a substantially greater economic impact than SARs, though, China is an order of magnitude more important as both a producer and consumer than it was back then, and international travel and trade in general is much higher.