There's no "they". That's one guy, making a paid appearance to the media.

We don't know enough about the virus to predict almost anything about it and are learning more every day.

I feel like people have already made up their mind about this by reading some extremely poor sources rather than bodies like the WHO so are going to panic no matter what people say.

The best option here would be for me to come back in a month and we'll reexamine the comment. 625,000 is literally insane.