"The number of people affected will go beyond billions because between 25 percent and 30 percent will fall ill."
Huh? There are billions of people on the planet, so how can the number of people affected go beyond billions?
Me thinks I smell an exaggeration, the desire for people to be afraid. Remember that terrible SARS epidemic, there was only a 98% survival rate, and this will be worse with only a 99.97% survival rate!

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