Even if this is the apocalypse, as you suggest, the number of cases of common cold and influenza, in China, even in Hubei (let alone other provinces) almost certainly outnumber number of nCoV cases.

Nothing in the report suggests the authorities knew what they were doing or what they were treating...they seem to have panicked with someone presenting with non-specific symptoms, who got better after a while. Which is as one would expect for nCoV, the cold or influenza. Or did your magic 8 ball tell you what the pathogen was?

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