[FRIAM] Coronavirus vs Flu

[Owen Densmore]

I'm reading an NYTimes piece
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/world/asia/coronavirus-risk-interpreter.html>
on the Coronavirus containing:

But one of the attendees, a public health student, had had enough.
Exasperated, she rattled off a set of statistics.

The virus had killed about 1,100 worldwide and infected around a dozen in
the United States. Alarming, but a much more common illness, influenza,
kills about 400,000 people every year, including 34,200 Americans last flu
season and 61,099 the year before.


I had looked that up previously and was also puzzled .. Flu is way more
deadly .. those numbers are staggering.

The article was less on the mortality rates etc but on:
    Coronavirus ‘Hits All the Hot Buttons’ for How We Misjudge Risk
.. and goes on to explain the lopsided response.

BTW: the Flu numbers were a wakeup call! I hope we all have one!

   -- Owen
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