Going by official reports and numbers, the virus doesn't seem particularly awful. But there is a disconnect here, because the Chinese have also just quarantined a city of over 10 million people. If the official information is fully accurate this would seem like an overreaction. I mean I'm pretty sure that a quarantine of that scale is unprecedented in history. Besides which, the unofficial information leaking from that city is that the virus is incredibly contagious - with large numbers of hospital staff falling ill - and that the unofficial death toll is higher. In brief, pay attention to this one.
