Lots of confusion in the world on this topic. I remember reading somewhere, some years ago that in Canada approximately 12,000 people die from the annual flu virus. I thought this number was really high, world wide statistics are 440,000- 660,000 (number is not exact, from memory but is close) people who die from the annual flu virus. It is something we have lived with for years, listening to radio advertisements, reminding us ( often young children, the elderly and those with pre-existing medical conditions such as asthma.) to get their seasonal flu shot. Dr. Li the doctor who brought knowledge of this corona virus has died from it,
www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/asia/li-wenliang-coronavirus-whistleblower-doctor-dies-intl/index.html
He was only 35, however the seasonal flu virus also kills the young and healthy, although a small percentage of them. We also have to consider the fact that this man was under an incredible amount of stress, and probably along with the virus contributed to his deteriorating health and death.
In the US, this flu season is already up to 10,000 deaths and 180,000 hospitalizations, and it still has to make its run to March or April. As of today I looked at the numbers for the corona virus and they are at 1100 dead with 45,000 having contracted the virus. Odd things; a day after the WHO announced it was a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), Bill Gates and his foundation, make a large donation to big pharma, to develop a vaccine. His agenda is the globalization of the vaccines of big pharma.
Others contract the virus and recover with very little fanfare.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sunnybrook-coronavirus-patient-1.5447251
We hear stories of people drinking bat soup at a Wuhan market, then a secret biotech lab working on viral weaponry. Others speculate it is a new variation of the corona virus, that might be more or less fatal than the annual flu. Either of these could possibly be true, I do not know.
Cruise ships not being allowed to dock, hazmat suits,people in a police state, dragged from their apartments, drones telling disorientated elderly people to go back home, the streets of a large city that are empty, like an apocalyptic event, seems so bizarre.
The Part A and Part B; I see on my desk has proven itself, over and over again, as deadly towards any virus, and that is good enough for me.