Yahoo! Lifestyle -- “Much of the fear surrounding the coronavirus is figuring it out in real-time,” said Sheldon H. Jacobson, a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “And that’s why the numbers seem so frightening to people...this is a bad situation, but it’s not something that everyone will get.” Jacobson says common-sense measures like healthy eating, exercise and hand-washing are people’s best bets.