Dear Reader:

I forgot #6, an big item, so here is a re-writing of #1-5, plus the sixth item-

The current danger that SARS-Cov-2 poses to our global population is a result of the following:

1. The virus is very contagious. The Ro number: 1.4-3.9 (wikipedia), WHO estimated it to be 1.4-2.5 on Jan 23, a preliminary and later studies estimated it to be 1.5-3.5, and  3.6-4 (Worldometers.info/coronavirus).

2. Too many people are currently infected (the current number of total global coronavirus cases is 422,566).

3. There is no vaccine for the COVID-19.

4. There is no anti-viral treatment for the COVID-19.

5. The health system in every country is not prepared for a massive inflow of COVID-19  patients needing hospitalization (to be added to patients already there as a result of other diseases and injuries, etc.

6. The greater the numbers of people infected/ the greater the number of hosts, the more the virus mutates, and the greater the chance that a more aggressive viruses results from the repeated mutations, such that are more contagious coronavirus (a bigger Ro), and/ or a coronavirus that cause more severe symptoms/ a more severe form of the disease, and more deaths.

anita