 All right, let's get to that breaking news stories with breaking news breaking news breaking news With the coronavirus spreading Governments across the world have started taking up increasing actions to slow the virus is spread in China Some 45 million people are under quarantine across Italy schools have been shut down and the US passed an 8.3 billion dollar Funding bill aimed at fighting the virus The only problem the virus isn't containable, but newer reports show that this isn't as bad as many people fear Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on any future videos and let's jump in Three months ago on New Year's Eve The Chinese government announced a new strain of coronavirus had been spreading throughout Wuhan, China Since then the virus has spread to more than a hundred thousand people across 61 countries So we have two things to discuss the first why even with all the actions Governments of the world have been taking is the coronavirus uncontainable and the second why that's not as bad as you might think The three things that make the virus impossible to contain are how easily it spreads How long it takes to show symptoms and how many people never show symptoms at all The best way to talk about how contagious a virus is is by talking about its are not value in Simple terms are not predicts the number of people who can catch a given bug from a single person a Number less than one and the virus will quickly die out Greater than one and now you have a pandemic on your hands for reference The flu has an are not of 1.3 and the 2018 Ebola outbreak had an are not of about two Both less than the coronaviruses are not of 2.2 that puts it on part with the Chinese SARS outbreak from the early 2000s and the 1918 influenza pandemic which was one of the deadliest pandemics ever recorded This means that the virus can spread quickly between people and the number of cases would be expected to rise Exponentially another useful metric when talking about diseases is the incubation time or the time between being exposed and when you first display Symptoms this is the time frame that you can spread the disease before even knowing you have it for the flu The incubation time is only about a day, but for the coronavirus It's two weeks This is one of the main factors that has made containment so difficult people can get infected fly across the world Have dinner with their friends go out meet new people shake their hands and cough into the air for two weeks Before they even realize they've been infected. This has allowed the virus to spread to 61 countries Even sneaking past airport checkpoints another example of the problems this long incubation time can pose or the new work policies Many companies have implemented many companies have started telling their employees that if they think they've caught the bug to stay home But by the point that an employee realizes they're sick they would have already been contagious and showing up to work for two weeks and while China quarantining nearly 50 million people has No doubt slowed the virus's advance. They can't stay quarantined forever and officials fear that once the quarantine is lifted The virus will pick back up again Finally according to health officials out of the WHO 80% of cases are mild to moderate meaning the majority of people might not even realize they've caught the virus Allowing it to spread further since those people won't think to isolate themselves This has led many health officials including some at the WHO to fear that the hundred thousand reported cases worldwide Might be an underestimate, but this is also good news Hundreds of millions if not billions of people are thinking about the virus But for four out of five people that catch it symptoms won't be much and only six percent of people who caught it Required immediate health support and as more cases have come in Officials have realized the death toll will likely be far lower than initially expected and Wuhan where doctors became Overwhelmed by the sudden influx of patients the fatality rate was nearly six percent But in other parts of China that got time to prepare the death toll was less than one percent And like we mentioned earlier if many people catch the virus without even realizing it even the one percent might be artificially inflated Even more than that if a few days more preparedness was enough to lower the death rate by 85% the rest of the world that got even more time and Realistically has better health infrastructure should be even better equipped to deal with these new cases This isn't to say that we shouldn't fear the virus or take steps to prevent its spread Well overall death rates are low for those over the age of 80 or with existing heart conditions They have a nearly one in five fatality risk if they catch the virus for now Make sure to wash your hands and stay home if you start coughing a lot If you like the video consider watching our dive into the origins of the coronavirus here and remember there's always more to learn