Any numbers for the plain old flu for today?
Unfair comparison at this point. Kung-flu isn’t widespread yet. Influenza is.
The concerns for the Kung-flu should be the apparent high hospitalization rate compared to the regular flu.
Unless we can snuff this one out, we won’t know exactly how deadly it is overall until it runs through a bunch of countries.
Virologists worry that unchecked it could infect anywhere from 30-70% of the world pop.
2.3% of 30% of 7 billion+ people is around half a million.
The flu has a less than 1% mortality rate normally, sometimes as high as 2%.
So it could just be a really bad flu (after two bad flu years back to back), or it could run up to the high side of the infection estimated and kill millions.
It’s a giant question mark on how it will actually play out. Good containment measures can slow this down to a non event. Head in sand calling it a “hoax” letting infected people walk around concerts and schools? Anyone’s guess.