If you're really interested in the topic of pandemics and the like, I recommend reading David Quammen's book, Spillover. Among other things, it includes some descriptions of Chinese food markets and the potential for deadly viruses to originate in them. Also has some interesting, if scary, discussions of markets selling monkey meat and the like in Africa. Made me think that it's just a matter of time until we have a major pandemic.
Does this virus have the potential to be a big one? My inexpert sense is that it's pretty unlikely, but can't be ruled out. Let's see what the mortality rate is in another month.
Also, it sounds like there could be a vaccine in record time, but that would still be quite a few months:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/scien...peed-openness/