County health officer: Don’t panic over coronavirus

Don’t panic over the coronavirus, Shawnee County health officer Dr. Gianfranco Pezzino said Monday.
“This is not going to be a death sentence,” Pezzino told county commissioners at their morning meeting. “This is not the plague.”
The vast majority of people infected with the coronavirus experience only a mild fever and cough, through some become very ill, said Pezzino, who is a physician.
A few people die after being infected, with that currently appearing to be about 2 percent, Pezzino said.
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