It's simple: there were a lot of unknowns for SARS. We didn't know where it came from, how it spread, how virulent it was, how long its incubation period was. As we got more information, the panic settled down.
It could have been a disaster. The flu of 1918 killed more people than World War I -- and it was far less deadly than SARS is.
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Date: 2003-06-24 12:38 pm (UTC)It could have been a disaster. The flu of 1918 killed more people than World War I -- and it was far less deadly than SARS is.