So I'm really confused as to what the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic is.

Regardless of whatever you call it, people are so panic.

Is everyone just going to be working remotely and avoiding travel for the foreseeable future?

So just how serious is the coronavirus situation?

Really?

For you personally, there's no question there is not really a sector of our society that

has not been impacted by what has happened over the last several weeks.

Having covered a lot of these outbreaks over the last 20 years, I knew that the economy

would be affected, but I don't think anyone could have predicted just how badly coronavirus

fears coupled with an oil price war would tank the markets.

What is clear is that investors, parents, just about everyone is getting spooked.

Look, some of it is warranted, and some of it is not, and today we're going to explain

why.

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, and this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

Let's start at the beginning, or at least as close to the beginning as possible.

In December of last year, a novel or a new virus started circulating in China, and over

the last three months, the virus spread to nearly a hundred countries and regions around

the world.

More than a hundred thousand people have been infected, and around four thousand have died.

Incidentally, when you hear the global fatality rate is around four percent, now you have

a rough idea of where they get those numbers.

Let's also define some terms that are increasingly being used by public health officials, and I

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