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Message: [QUOTE="Sifaka, post: 3474443, member: 8516"] Disclaimer: I am not an M.D., and am a fan of UConn WBB and WCBB. Just spoke with my next door neighbor, an M.D., and parent of another M.D., an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control. They confirmed what I've been reading on my class newsletter—contributions from numerous physician classmates with 40+ years of medical practice each. (1) This is a pandemic, as the head of the WHO confirmed today. (2) Without strenuous containment efforts, the number of people afflicted by the virus will double every week, and totally overwhelm our healthcare facilities. (3) As to the fatality rate, we simply do not know. We do know how many have died, but don't know how many have had the illness. Thus, X/Y=? where X=deaths, we don't know what Y is, and therefore cannot calculate the mortality rate. I would love to see tournament games, and would be very sad if the kids can't play, but serious illness and even death in my community is much worse than the loss of sporting events. [/QUOTE]