I do not think the COVID-19 epidemic affects BTC. Currently, the disease has not been repelled. And scientists have yet to make a vaccine to prevent this new strain of Corona virus. Countries around the world are seriously affected economically by restricting trade with each other. But today's BTC price has risen to $ 9400. I think the main reason is that the upcoming halving day of BTC means that the difficulty of BTC mining doubled, leading to the scarcity of BTC in the future.
It's only a matter of time, not whether or not it will be repelled.
And economically, sure everyone is worrying now, especially me with cuts to our salaries already approved. But I think in the end the system needs a reboot, and yes we'll all have to pay for it some way or other but it will be better for our kids later. Hopefully, we all equip them with btc too.