According to the latest data as of 3/8/2020, the worst-hit country in the COVID-19 battle is China, by far. Further, by all accounts, at the beginning it was handled very poorly by the authorities, making the death rate there worse than what is likely in other countries.

Here are the current stats for all those panicking in N America. These refer to China only, as it's probably the worst-cast scenario:

Total infected: 107478
Recoverd: 60686
Dead: 3652
Sick: 43140

This translates to an official mortality rate of 3.4% Thanks to the MSM, most Americans hear that and think something like, 'OMG, 3.4% of 327 million is over 11 million dead!"

But that's not what mortality rate means. The way it is calculated is by dividing the number of deaths by the number of known cases. Two caveats about that. First it refers to known cases, not the total population. Second, it assumes the authorities know about every case.

Another way to look at is is we can compare the total number of deaths by COVID-19 to the total population of China, which is about 1.4B. That yields a death rate of 0.00026%, or 2.6 out of every million persons. That percentage of the US population is 598 people.

There will certainly be more deaths and that tiny percentage will rise, but it seems to be slowing down already, and the numbers would have to rise by orders of magnitude for it to reach anywhere near panic level.

Calm down, take reasonable precautions, and carry on.

You confuse justified concern and a need to know everything we can as pertains to the facts as "panicking".

You also confuse real facts that don't look as good as right wing media and the trump administration is lying about and projecting as the fake news, we are going to be seeing real numbers and facts on a daily basis that don't match the false numbers trump "lies" about, if you want to call misrepresenting numbers anything but lies. How hard would it be for trump to ask an advisor what the new numbers are before speaking? He gets corrected and still uses the old numbers that were wrong days later when they are way worse.

Those who are paying attention to the news and facts know this is going to be worse than originally thought. That is not panicking.

According to the latest data as of 3/8/2020, the worst-hit country in the COVID-19 battle is China, by far. Further, by all accounts, at the beginning it was handled very poorly by the authorities, making the death rate there worse than what is likely in other countries.

Here are the current stats for all those panicking in N America. These refer to China only, as it's probably the worst-cast scenario:

Total infected: 107478
Recoverd: 60686
Dead: 3652
Sick: 43140

This translates to an official mortality rate of 3.4% Thanks to the MSM, most Americans hear that and think something like, 'OMG, 3.4% of 327 million is over 11 million dead!"

But that's not what mortality rate means. The way it is calculated is by dividing the number of deaths by the number of known cases. Two caveats about that. First it refers to known cases, not the total population. Second, it assumes the authorities know about every case.

Another way to look at is we can compare the total number of deaths by COVID-19 to the total population of China, which is about 1.4B. That yields a death rate of 0.00026%, or 2.6 out of every million persons. That percentage of the US population is 598 people.

There will certainly be more deaths and that tiny percentage will rise, but it seems to be slowing down already, and the numbers would have to rise by orders of magnitude for it to reach anywhere near panic level.

Calm down, take reasonable precautions, and carry on.

You confuse justified concern and a need to know everything we can as pertains to the facts as "panicking".

You also confuse real facts that don't look as good as right wing media and the trump administration is lying about and projecting as the fake news, we are going to be seeing real numbers and facts on a daily basis that don't match the false numbers trump "lies" about, if you want to call misrepresenting numbers anything but lies. How hard would it be for trump to ask an advisor what the new numbers are before speaking? He gets corrected and still uses the old numbers that were wrong days later when they are way worse.

Those who are paying attention to the news and facts know this is going to be worse than originally thought. That is not panicking.

According to the latest data as of 3/8/2020, the worst-hit country in the COVID-19 battle is China, by far. Further, by all accounts, at the beginning it was handled very poorly by the authorities, making the death rate there worse than what is likely in other countries.

Here are the current stats for all those panicking in N America. These refer to China only, as it's probably the worst-cast scenario:

Total infected: 107478
Recoverd: 60686
Dead: 3652
Sick: 43140

This translates to an official mortality rate of 3.4% Thanks to the MSM, most Americans hear that and think something like, 'OMG, 3.4% of 327 million is over 11 million dead!"

But that's not what mortality rate means. The way it is calculated is by dividing the number of deaths by the number of known cases. Two caveats about that. First it refers to known cases, not the total population. Second, it assumes the authorities know about every case.

Another way to look at is we can compare the total number of deaths by COVID-19 to the total population of China, which is about 1.4B. That yields a death rate of 0.00026%, or 2.6 out of every million persons. That percentage of the US population is 598 people.

There will certainly be more deaths and that tiny percentage will rise, but it seems to be slowing down already, and the numbers would have to rise by orders of magnitude for it to reach anywhere near panic level.

Calm down, take reasonable precautions, and carry on.

Thanks. But...ooops, I was in a rush and made a couple of mistakes. First I thought I'd brought up China's numbers, but those are worldwide numbers, the actual China numbers are:

Total infected 80699
Recovered 57098
Dead 3097
Sick 20504

Which translates to a slightly lower percentage of the total population of China, about 2.21 persons/million.

Then I fat-fingered the population of the US as 237M instead of 327M. So, that percentage of the US population would be 723 people. Sorry about the mistakes, this time I double-checked.