>what are you telling people who are asking you?
Telling them to follow WH and POTUS twitter for authoritative info, and to watch the daily CDC briefings from the WH.
These authoritative info sources may or may not be telling us all of the true details we want to know, but they definitely ARE telling everyone what they want the American people to know and do.
In an abundance of caution I'm treating it as if it's real and serious, since that's the guidance we're getting direct from POTUS.