Learning Points: Why does panic spread quicker than any virus?

IT starts with a sudden and terrible feeling. Lungs gasp for air; the rattle of your chest against your ribs fills your mind with dread, says
.Your eyes are wild; terror grips your body. No matter how diligently you have been ‘self-isolating’, nothing has worked and the pathological ringing of your hands with anti-bacterial gel has done nothing to save you from the grip of this new catastrophe.