In Korea, folks are very pessimistic. I was speaking with experienced nurses today, and the expectation is a massive influx of cases in Korea within the month, thousands at least.
Koreans were saying the Chinese are lying, flat out, they've done it endlessly in similar situations, and closing down one city when it has clearly spread throughout China is far too little and 2 to 3 weeks too late.
The question is the mortality rate??? This will spread as far and more than SARS, but how many people will die? We hope, only thousands, but if the mortality rate is higher than the Chinese are admitting than we're talking big numbers. This will be totally global in two weeks, people thinking otherwise or playing it down are in another wold...