Animation shows how the coronavirus has outpaced SARS, MERS and Ebola

Currently the US reports 11 deaths of 149 recorded infections which equates to a 7.4% mortality rate. If the mortality rate is really is 2% or 3.5% the total infected would be 550 to 314 respectively. This indicates many people have not been tested properly as carriers.

Trump is still playing politics: "The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we're doing," Trump said Wednesday during on a meeting addressing the coronavirus outbreak. "And we undid that decision a few days ago so that the testing can take place in a much more rapid and accurate fashion."

An aide to Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, said the Obama administration made no such rule change. The aide, Taylor Haulsee, said the Obama administration did propose that the Food and Drug Administration have more oversight over approving diagnostic tests, but that did not go through.

Doubtful, as the ebola virus has a roughly 90% mortality rate and coronavirus is only about 3.5%.