A team of 25 experts were called in to discuss on the matter
- The virus is believed to have not significantly mutated
- 104 strains from different places were studied and 99.9% were similar in origin
- Average age of infected patients is 51 years old
- 80% of infected patients range from 30 to 65 years old
- Around 3,000 medical workers have been infected by the virus - mostly in Wuhan
- On the severity of cases, ~80% are mild, 13.8% severe, 6.1% critical
- Death rate is 3% to 4% nationally, outside of Wuhan it is around 0.7%
- Average recovery time is 2 weeks for mild cases, 3-6 weeks for severe cases
Meanwhile, WHO's Bruce Aylward says that the 80% decline in cases in mainland China is real and that there is a lot of compelling field data to support the figures.
The findings above do help to put a lot of things into perspective with regards to the virus outbreak, but a startling remark is that the experts still could not be sure of asymptomatic transmission of the virus in most cases.
If this keeps up with the proposition that humans can "live" with the fact that this isn't nearly as bad as the flu, will we as humanity just come to accept this virus as a new normal disease that one may get from day-to-day activities (that is if you can trust the numbers above)?
