[Taxacom] Hysteria over the new coronavirus

[Kenneth Kinman]

Dear All,
      The news media seems to be overly hyping the threat of the new coronovirus.  However, the threat might not be any more than the related SARS virus (which killed about 800 people worldwide).  Furthermore, the threat of the flu is far greater (well over 8,000 deaths in the U.S. so far this season and probably hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide).  Hysteria like this could needlessly divert resources from detecting something even more deadly (which could cause a real pandemic).
       Quote:  "When we think about the relative danger of this new coronavirus and influenza, there's just no comparison," William Schaffner, a vaccine expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told Kaiser Health News (KHN)<https://khn.org/news/flu-far-deadlier-than-wuhan-virus/>. "Coronavirus will be a blip on the horizon in comparison."
                                 --------------Ken Kinman

Source of quotes from William Schaffner:    https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-lesser-threat-to-americans-than-flu-2020-1

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