A video explaining what happens when you get infected by the coronavirus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTYfke545vI
TL;DW
  • unless you have a compromised immune system, then you'll pretty much have flu-like symptoms for just over a week and then get better. The majority of fatalities have been elderly people. More people die from the common cold, malaria and heart disease.

  • best ways to combat the spread of the virus; anyone who's recently come from China should be quarantined for a fortnight; indeed schools have told all students to stay home for fourteen days from the date of their return to Australia. The other one is hand washing. Carrying around a hand sanitiser might be a good idea.

But yeah, for most healthy individuals there's not much of a threat other than getting sick. But of course, we can become carriers of the virus and spread it to babies or the elderly, so it is a good idea to try and isolate this disease, but at the same time there's no need for panic either.