Why we're not overreacting to the coronavirus, in one chart - VOX

If anyone tries to tell you that everyone is overreacting to COVID-19 or coronavirus spread, refer them here.

To someone who hasn’t been following the pandemic’s spread closely, the drastic measures indeed might seem like an overreaction. After all, around 13,000 cases and 200 deaths — as of Thursday — in a country of 330 million doesn’t seem that bad. Is it really worth shutting down the economy, a measure that will of course have horrific costs of its own, for such a small toll?

But the numbers mask what’s really causing experts to worry: The coronavirus’s trajectory is putting us on a course of many, many more cases and many, many more deaths unless we do something drastic.

In other words, there’s a simple answer to the question: No, we’re not overreacting.

Read more: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/20/21179040/coronavirus-us-italy-not-overreacting