Coronavirus Outbreak: All the Secrets Revealed About the Covid-19 Pandemic. A complete Rational Guide of its Evolution, Expansion, Symptoms and First Defense

How Many People Will It Kill?
The fatality rate for a virus— the proportion of infected people who die — is
difficult to calculate in the midst of an outbreak as reports are continuously
being updated on new cases and deaths. The fresh corona virus has a decease
amount of 2–3 percent with 213 deceases so far out of nearly 10,000
infections. This is expressively lesser than SARS, which killed about 10
percent of its infected people. The reported mortality rate for the latest corona
virus is likely to decline as mild and asymptomatic cases are detected,
virologist Mark Harris at Leeds University, UK, told London's Science Media
Centre.
There are no effective drugs against the virus at this time. Two HIV
treatments that are thought to target a protein that helps replicate corona
viruses are being studied as a cure. Many current medicines that target this
role have also been identified by scientists, and numerous intercontinental
investigative groups are operating on a serum.
The amount of deceased will also depend on how the large number of cases
copes with China's health care system. Putting people on drips and ventilators
will make sure they get enough fluids and oxygen while the immune system
in their body battles the infection. China is constructing two new hospitals in
Wuhan to treat sick people, but if the virus spreads to parts of the world with
fewer resources, such as African income regions, their health systems could
fail, says Sanjaya Senanayake, an infectious disease specialist at Canberra's
Australian National University.
The director-general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said his
main concern in announcing a global health emergency was that the epidemic

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could spread to countries with weak health care systems.
If the virus is spreading all over the world, the number of deaths could be
significant. For an infectious disease, the current death rate of 2–3 per cent—
although not as high as for SARS — is still quite high. The epidemic of
influenza in 1918, known as Spanish flu, affected about half a billion people
at the time, one-third of the world's population, and killed more than 2.5 per
cent of those infected; others reported that as many as 50 million people died.
The China corona virus is unlikely to induce such an apocalyptic scenario,
because it does not usually infect or kill healthy young people.