Comment Re:Compared to flu ... (Score 1) 117
When the flu happens, it doesn't overload our hospitals. The flu also isn't air borne, making it much easier to control. If you catch the flu and are young and healthy and just need IV and a little O2, you there's enough capacity at the hospital for you to get it an live a few years and then catch it again. SARS-CoV-2 is airborne and can aerosolize, living in the air for up to 9 hours after an infected person has been in a particular space. Thus it is spreading much more rapidly and has more than a 45x the death rate according to the WHO (and the WHO only gives us the conservative to prevent panic) We haven't even seen all of this iceberg's tip yet and don't have enough test kits to push it back under. It will get MUCH worse without a drug treament or China like quarantine. What's happening in Italy, hasn't happened with the flu since 1918.