JRPGfan said:
I agree with this.
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First of all, mortality rate of 3% is pretty high, especially as the disease spreads that quickly. And if you got to that rate by dividing the 26 reported death by the 895 reported infections, than this is problematic, as these diseases are a case literally of the last days. Alone from yesterday to today the number of reported infections grew by 260 people. So these people are still ill, you can't calculate mortality rate until the persons have either died or recovered. And people newly fallen ill yesterday haven't recovered today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_Wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak
You don't need to be too concerned though yet, not because of mortality rate, but because it so far is restricted to a few countries and at this point emergency border checks are in place in many countries. Well, except you live in the countries in question. If despite that the illness will spread globally, than it starts to become more serious for other parts of the world too.
Last edited by Mnementh - on 24 January 2020
