The new Wuhan coronavirus has apparently already spread to the US – with a first case reported in Washington State – but we don't expect it to cause the sort of panic that hit travel and retail sales in affected areas during the SARS epidemic in 2003, principally because the mortality rate for this new virus appears to be much lower than SARS.
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