Coronavirus claims 15 more lives in China; first two cases reported in Europe

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12. It's a numbers game.

Currently the the official numbers is just over 1,000 infected and 41 people have died. That's what we have to work with, but it's an evolving situation and will change.

Of course, the actual number of infections are assumed to be closer to 6,000, but as of now we don't have the data to prove that, yet. The point is, it's a new virus with few statistics and actual knowledge about it out there yet. But, the ratio of infected to mortality is the point. It has zero to do with natural causes deaths. Zero. Nada. Zip.

This is like saying, don't get your flu shot, because people die everyday. Science is our friend.