Business Insider: The new coronavirus has killed nearly 3 times as many people in 8 weeks as SARS did in 8 months between November 2002 and July 2003. Here’s how the 2 outbreaks compare.

COVID-19 is more contagious but less deadly than SARS. The mortality rate of COVID-19 is between 1-2% versus 9.6% for SARS. Meanwhile, COVID-19 has spread much faster and infected over 75,000 people in 2 months compared to SARS, which took 8 months to affect over 8,000. Nonetheless, the two coronaviruses share many similarities as they have the same binding site and exhibit similar lung x-rays. However, it appears that COVID-19’s protein has larger spikes that make it more easily bind to receptors in humans, making it more contagious than SARS. Read the full article here.