Assessing the Risk Posed by the Coronavirus

How deadly is the new coronavirus?

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/03/12/how-deadly-is-the-new-coronavirus

In These Aging Places, Coronavirus Is a Huge Threat

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-13/coronavirus-is-high-risk-to-aging-florida-retirement-communities

Gerd Gigerenzer, Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, notes:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/greater-risk-literacy-can-reduce-coronavirus-fear-by-gerd-gigerenzer-2020-03

This year’s COVID-19 coronavirus will not be the last. As a first step toward confronting the outbreaks to come, we must improve risk literacy and learn to live with uncertainty, rather than allowing ourselves to be held captive by it.