OK, it’s the SARs strain. Found a 2013 report of 5-7% mortality.
Then why the blazes is China in a panic and countries around the world are banning flights? It’s second only to the Impeachment over on CNN’s page.
Well, for a few reasons that are known...
1. 14 day incubation makes it very hard to track and harder to contain.
2. It appears to move between people very easily.
3. Even if mortality is only 2%, that’s 20x the average flu. Literally 10s of millions could die. Even 100 million.
And with all zoonotic viral leaps, it could mutate further. And become as bad as SARS or MERS.
And it could be a bio weapon from that lab.