Coronavirus – No need for panic, just read some answers from Quora to educate yourself.
https://www.quora.com/q/coronaviruswatch/Is-the-new-Corona-Virus-dangerous-for-a-normal- healthy-person
“The corona virus has a mortality rate of 2%. It is especially infectious for elders, infants and people with underlying diseases. Up until Feb.17th, over 70,635 patients have been diagnosed with corona virus in China, of which 1772 were dead and most of whom are elder citizens more than 65 years old.”
Not first answer but interesting one:
“It is not worth worrying much because of an outbreak of coronavirus. The panic is not justified and the media exaggerate the level of threat. Yes, indeed the virus is quite dangerous for humans and the world’s population as a whole. Our immunity is not capable of properly protecting us from the virus since the virus is new and we are not ready for it.
I give brief statistics and an analogy with previous outbreaks of coronavirus: for example, in 2002 there was also an outbreak of the dangerous SARS virus in China, which claimed the lives of every tenth infected with this coronavirus (10% of the total number of infected). Also in the Middle East in 2012-2015, an outbreak of a dangerous virus was also recorded, which killed up to 35% of the total number of infected.
The new coronavirus from China kills about 3% of the total number of infected.”
https://www.quora.com/How-dangerous-is-the-coronavirus-6
“First, it appears that younger people have much more resistance to SARS-CoV-2 taking hold in their bodies when they are exposed to the virus. For example, patients under the age of 20 comprised only 2% of the confirmed cases (note: some of this may be due to adverse selection bias, which I will discuss in the next takeaway).
Second, once younger people are infected with the virus, survival rates are higher. As of February 11th, there has only been a single person (out of nearly a thousand cases) under the age of 20 that is confirmed to have died from COVID-19.
Meanwhile, the case fatality rate increases exponentially with each successive decade after the age of 40. Based on these reported case fatality rates, if you are over the age of 80, you are 69x more likely to die than someone under the age of 40.”
https://www.quora.com/What-makes-the-coronavirus-so-dangerous-What-can-make-it-even-more-dangerous?
“Who is more likely to die? Male smokers over the age of 40 with diabetes have a death rate over 10%. Who is least likely to die? Females under age 40 with no health problems will have a fatality rate less than 1%. Women really are the stronger gender.”