What you need to worry about are the special statistics.
If you look at Drudgereport.com today you will notice the headline "1000 cases" and another headline "60 dead".
That's 6 out of 100, or 6%.
Although this is just preliminary, that makes this particular flu more deadly than the Spanish Flu in WWI.
Best method is quarantine.
Yep, this could get ugly. Hopefully it arrives as the school year is ending, making quarantine a bit easier. It would have been worse if it hit in the Fall.
The committee “will be asked, ‘should we raise the alert level to phase four or phase five,’ depending on their appreciation of how far the virus has spread,” Hartl said.
I think we can expect to be moving through those levels fairly soon based on 1000 effected, deaths, spreading outside of countries etc.
But are the high levels of death due to non-treatment?
I take care of a friend and she remembers being in the upstairs room of her house with brothers and sisters.
She turnw 99 in two months and sharp as a tack. She said that while we did fine in the US it was still a scary time.
I have 12 n95 masks and will be buying more today.