From what I've gathered, it's essentially a flu that's 5-20 times more deadly and is spread just as easily.
Since the flu kills around 20,000-45,000 a year in this country, the math is sobering. Although note that a lot of people dying of the flu are the same kind of people who would die from this new virus.
Either way, if it spreads, we could be looking at 100k plus deaths.
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