The other difference is that the CDC said yesterday that this virus will likely survive thru the summer and flare up again next winter... and that it would likely get a foothold in the US at that time if it doesn’t this season.

"Right now we're in an aggressive containment mode," Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), told CNN last week. "We don't know a lot about this virus. This virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year, and I think eventually the virus will find a foothold and we will get community-based transmission."