"We're gonna see school closures here. .. We keep hearing that life here isn't going to change. That's not true." #covid19 t.co/E1LvyHWZPT
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) March 2, 2020
"There's probably low-thousands of cases in this country that we now need to turn over the card on. We are going to have a surge of cases before we actually catch up to the level of spread," says @ScottGottliebMD on #coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/2LXfCCKjzF
— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) March 2, 2020
Comparison – US 18/19 flu season
Weekly
Total infected = 704k
Hospitalized = 24.5k
Died = 1.7kIf 704k a week get Covid-19 ("like the flu")
Hospitalized = 131.6k
Die = 15.5kIf Covid-19 was "like the flu", kill more a month than autos in a year. Overwhelm hospitals in a weeks. t.co/wnjJR8sruy
— Jim Bianco (@biancoresearch) March 2, 2020