Novel Coronavirus - hunker down and brave the storm

The novel coronavirus outbreak began in mid-Dec 2019 in the seventh-largest city of China - Wuhan, home to over 11 million people and the capital of Hubei province. The first suspected cases were reported on 31 December 2019, and to date, over 40,000 infections have been confirmed with a death toll of over 900. While scientists do not know how lethal the new coronavirus is, they agreed the virus is spreading more like influenza than Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (“SARS”) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (“MERS”).