Coronavirus AKA COVID-19
The coronavirus (COVID-19) that originated in Wuhan, China, is affecting the lives of literally billions of people around the world. Speculation about its origins and its potential to sicken and kill people has been rampant. Some of this has been fueled by China’s lack of transparency about how bad it was/is in China. And there still exists a credibility problem with stats coming out of China.
China seems to be an incubator for these types of epidemics. From the Spanish Flu of 1918-19 to the SARS outbreak some years back, the last hundred years has seen a series of viruses originate in China with the potential to be pandemics.
Just how bad is this particular outbreak? Where did it actually originate? What are the mortality rates? Just as smallpox decimated the Native American population because of a lack of resistance to it, does this virus have a similar potential with different genetic populations around the world? Once a person recovers, is re-infection possible?