The quarantined Coronavirus population is now greater than Canada's entire population; Canada has an estimated 37.59 million (2019) people living in it, while the combined population of quarantined citizens in China is estimated at 35 million (with rumors of the true scope being suppressed by the government of China), as of January 23rd; numbers are rapidly climbing and the quarantine zone has grown since then. 

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While many are claiming that past viruses have had a greater impact, never before has a virus spread with no detectable symptoms for the first two weeks. Furthermore, never has such a large population been quarantined, with effects so misunderstood that even doctors are contracting and dying from the disease.

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Interestingly, the center for health security did a study on a theoretical novel strain of coronavirus in Oct. 2018, Interestingly, this center is funded by a man who is very enthusiastic about the topic of novel viral outbreaks, Bill Gates. The study was dubbed "Event 201".

http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/scenario.html

Many have criticized Gates and world governments for development of novel strains of virus, and are speculating that this was a designed weapon accidentally or intentionally released. This speculation has led the center for health security to issue a statement in relation to the current outbreak.
http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/newsroom/center-news/2020-01-24-Statement-of-Clarification-Event201.html

Their statement, which includes an estimation of what they expect in terms of death tolls is as follows:

"In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called Event 201 with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Recently, the Center for Health Security has received questions about whether that pandemic exercise predicted the current novel coronavirus outbreak in China. To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners did not make a prediction during our tabletop exercise. For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. Instead, the exercise served to highlight preparedness and response challenges that would likely arise in a very severe pandemic. We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 outbreak will kill 65 million people. Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019."

As of this writing being published, around 2000 people worldwide are confirmed to have contracted the virus, with the number rapidly rising.
Today, transmission of the disease via the eyes has been confirmed, which was not previously identified and has lead to the infection of doctors.