In exactly way way is is more of a threat.? Here, in the US.
There aren’t enough free ICU beds to treat the serious cases.
It isn’t ‘the elderly’.
One of the French cases who died this morning/yesterday was a ‘Frenchman’ (ie, white) who was 60. 60 isn’t ‘elderly’. Most 60yr olds still go to work every day.
There are 30 somethings with this on ventilators.
Mortality with THIS virus seems to be around 2%. The ‘flu’ has a mortality of about 0.07%.
2% mortality is about that of the Spanish Flu of 1918.
And STILL we have 46 states withOUT testing kits for this and ONLY test people who have recently arrived from China. In spite of Italy, Iran, SK and Japan having extensive human 2 human transmission involving non-china exposure.