Well....yes, and no.
Last night, on the 15-minute prime news (ARD, 8 PM).....it consumed about 40-percent of the period. Later at 10 PM, I'd guess that roughly 12 minutes was spent talking about related subjects with the Coronavirus.
Germans are consumed with questions, and I suspect they are treating it like Ebola, where it's a 'death-notice'. However, the facts don't really match up with the Ebola comparison. In general, the vast number of people who get the Coronavirus....survive on. If you delay seeing a doctor, or have a lung condition, or have a weakened immune system, then you will likely die. Beyond that, it's a rough flu (maybe going on for two weeks of rest).
Number of Germans with it at this point? Four, and they were all in the same town, and same company.
Here's the thing though....in a normal flu season, in a city like Wiesbaden (285,000)....you will have a minimum of 300 per week who come down with plain regular flu (the 24 to 48 hour type). Two days ago, someone showed up at one clinic in Wiesbaden and the various conditions suggested the Coronavirus, which pepped up everyone at that clinic. They had to wait roughly six to eight hours for the test results to come back, and the answer was....NO, it was not the Coronavius, but just a plain regular flu.
The problem is that this chatter of potential Coronavirus, got into social media and for a couple of hours, it was hyped in a unnecessary fashion.
The thing that might worry some Germans....this facial mask business that Asians often get into....well, the German experts are saying it's worthless with this type of virus. Meanwhile, probably ten-percent of the population is thinking over buying the masks anyway.
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