Pretty sure that is at the request of global public health authorities, since so many people are panicking, and the Chinese economy is taking huge hits, even in areas that have zero cases and zero deaths. Same for the worldwide tourist industry---people are under far greater risk and die by the millions from other diseases, and we barely bat an eye.
So far the death rate from COVID is very low, lower than SARs, and a hell of a lot lower than the regular seasonal flu, or bacterial pneumonia---both have vaccines, Annual Flu and Prevnar 13 and Pneumovax, and adults with other problems like diabetes and cardiac issues are very under-vaccinated. Meantime, Flu and secondary bacterial pneumonia are the biggest worldwide killer of children under 5. And the biggest killers of people over 65.
Actually, I wonder if this virus will change the actions of all the Silicon Valley Tech companies and employees who won't vaccinate their kids, or get vaccinated themselves. Kinda sad....sure they believe in science....
Y'all want a vaccine for COVID but really, is anyone going to take it when it comes?
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No it's not, this is fake news, Daily WHO updates have released much different death rates. Lots of people have been exposed to it and have had very mild illness, e.g. many people on the cruise ships have tested as showing small amounts of virus in their blood, but no symptoms, and the same had happened in Hubei, which is why they switched to taking temps and doing CT scans to find symptomatic people and are worrying less about people who are mildly ill.
Don't engage in scare tactics.