[goldstategop]

And still NO fatalities in the U.S. The statistics have been collated for only 20 days. Its not an average sufficient to allow us to do crystal ball gazing of future projected outcomes since 1) we know little about the disease apart from its being caused by a coronavirus pathogen and 2) its not at all clear why some areas are experiencing recurring cases and in other regions its either stable or going down. We need to know a lot more before it can be established to a certainty we'll be looking at a 100 million cases of SARS within a year.

[Trust but Verify]

And all infected people either live with, are very close acssociates of, or have themselves been in a 'hot' zone. Nobody has come in with no idea of where they might have gotten it.

[Tarsk]

"We need to know a lot more before it can be established to a certainty we'll be looking at a 100 million cases of SARS within a year."

He is simply suggesting that given what we know now it's a figure that's at least in the range of possibilities.

[templar]

And still NO fatalities in the U.S.

I've noticed that. Maybe more of a comparison of genuine effectiveness of the different health care systems than of the deadliness of the disease itself?

[FITZ]

And still NO fatalities in the U.S.

How many SARS cases have there been in the US?

[InterceptPoint]

we know little about the disease apart from its being caused by a coronavirus pathogen

How do we know this?

Does anyone have a link to an article where there is some proof for this claim. Tying a disease to a specific virus is not a trivial thing to do and I for one would like to see the scientific basis for declaring the coronavirus the cause of SARS.