New information emerges on coronavirus as countries around the world locked down.

The U.S. ramps up its own response and China tries to avoid the consequences of its own evil

government. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Your data is your business protected at expressVPN.com slash Ben. We're going to get to all the news in just one second. And as always, plenty of news there is, as always, just going to remind you, we are all in this together, even if we are apart. Don't worry. We're going to make it through this. There will be an end to this. We're going to talk about when that end might come, what the projections are for how long this last, what the measures are that're going to make it through this there will be an end to this we're going to talk about when that end might come what the projections are for how long this lasts what the measures are that are going to be taken how long those will last because right now there's a lot of uncertainty out there a lot of misinformation out there we're going to get into it we're going to break all of it down but first let's talk about a simple fact the markets are up and down and up and down and all around and up and down. The markets today are already smashing down through the 20,000

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finding that even in Wuhan province, where this thing started, those are not the death rates. Sharon Begley writes, and a rare piece of good news about COVID-19, a team of infectious disease experts calculates that the fatality rate in people who have symptoms of the disease caused by the new coronavirus is about 1.4%, which is really high. I mean, that is a lot higher than, for example, the seasonal flu, which is about 0.1%.

Although that estimate applies specifically higher than, for example, the seasonal flu,

which is about 0.1%. Although that estimate applies specifically to Wuhan, the Chinese city where the outbreak began, and is based on data from there, it offers a guide to the rest of the world where many countries might see even lower death rates. The new figure is significantly below earlier estimates of 2% or 3% well below the death rate for China based on simply dividing deaths by cases, which yields almost 4%.

It's still higher than the 0 well below the death rate for China based on simply dividing deaths by cases,

which yields almost 4%.

It's still higher than the 0.1% death rate from seasonal flu, as I mentioned, but it does

raise hopes that the worst consequence of the coronavirus will still remain uncommon.

Now, cutting against that optimism, because no one was immune to the new virus, the majority

of the population will be infected absent the quick arrival of vaccine or drastic public health interventions such as closing public places and canceling public events. Those same scientists conclude in a paper submitted to a journal, but not yet peer reviewed. So there have been these estimates floating around that anywhere from 40 to 70% of the population may eventually get the coronavirus, eventually being the key word there. Because if that happens over the course of a couple of years, well, then that is not actually a health emergency. It's just a bad

situation. A health emergency is everybody gets that within the next two months, right? Then we are

swamped. That's when that bell curve moves over the line and the line representing the

amount of medical capacity that we as a society have. But if that is spaced out over the

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