The CDC currently states, "For most of the American public, who are unlikely to be exposed to this virus at this time, the immediate health risk from COVID-19 is considered low," so I'm not really all that worried. (see
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/summary.html)
I'm currently traveling through the US but my most recent Lyft driver told me business is wayyy down and he isn't making much money. He says the area I'm currently staying in usually has tons of Asian tourists, but there aren't many around and he is making fewer trips to the airport than usual.
Also, I had dinner with someone who works in wellness (I'm not exactly sure what this means) on a university campus the other night and she explained to me that the worry is that this isn't like the flu or cold that hits for a few weeks/months and then generally stops getting passed around, but it might just keep getting passed around. If it isn't seasonal then containing the illness might be pretty difficult.
So far the scariest thing about this coronavirus is the insane shit prominent republicans are spouting and somehow making this a divisive issue "Donald Trump Jr, appearing on Fox News, said: “For them [democrats] to try to take a pandemic and seemingly hope that it comes here and kills millions of people so that they could end Donald Trump’s streak of winning is a new level of sickness.”
Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel said: “Democrats are using this for their political gain to try and stoke fear in the American people, which is shameful, wrong, and I think un-American.”
And the Fox and Friends nut case said something just as insane, "the Democrats, watch the media -- you start to feel like they're rooting for coronavirus to spread. And I don't say that flippantly, I really don't, but they're rooting for it to grow, they're rooting for the problem to get worse, they're rooting for mysteries, unknown cases, quarantines, towns, for it to become an absolute national crisis for one reason and one reason alone. They have yet to find a reason to try to drag down the presidency of Donald Trump."
"They're cheering -- I can't believe I'm on national television saying that Democrats are cheering for a virus because they hate Donald Trump so much."
https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/foxs-pete-hegseth-democrats-and-media-are-rooting-coronavirus-spreadAt present, watching Fox and Friends and then reading about the Spanish Civil War is far scarier than this disease could ever be.