This whole thing stinks to high heaven. At most so far 59 people have died, with most of them being in one nursing home in Kirkland WA. The media is fear mongering harder than ever to make orange man look bad. Schools and businesses are closing which is sure to send us into recession if not worse. Out of 330,000,000 people, 59 have died in the US and everything is screeching to a halt. Something isn't right here but it's fucking everything up. The economy was the best it's ever been in the history of our country and now everything is going to shit because of less than 100 deaths. More people probably die each year from skiing accidents. This is un fucking believable.
EDIT: I'm not saying this is a total hoax. I'm saying the media overreaction is making things way worse than they have to be. Panicking is never going to make anything better. If this is truly as bad as some of you are saying, I hope it justifies sending our economy into great depression 2 Corona boogaloo
Well if you want to mince words, the flu is caused by influenza.
The SARS line of viruses uses the alveolar epithelial type II cells (ACE2) as a target. It does not attack immune cells directly. If you heard that somewhere, it probably evolved from the "OMG ITZ LIKE HIV" bullshit rumor that was spreading around.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-020-05985-9
Just like the flu, the elderly are most likely to die from dehydration, whilst being slightly more at risk for uncommon complications.
This is every respiratory disease. Flu is 1-4 days. Original SARS is up to 14 days. Please stop sipping the Kool-aid:
https://www.medicinenet.com/severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_sars/article.htm
Lecturing a scientist on "exponential growth" is not going to win you any bonus points. Especially when the basic MOA of the disease is completely foreign to you.
Support your argument with actual data and try again. In the meantime, I'm going home. Work on a Sunday is bullshit.