Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money, is warning that the threat of the coronavirus outbreak to U.S. commerce and American lives is underappreciated.

“This is real. It probably can’t be contained,” Cramer told The Street, adding that “I think that we must be realistic.”

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