“We’re gonna see school closures here. .. We keep hearing that life here isn’t going to change. That’s not true.”

"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 = 1.7k

If 704k a week get Covid-19 ("like the flu")
Hospitalized = 131.6k
Die = 15.5k

If 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