Right. The virus is as serious, or not, as it is. As of today there have been 153 517 cases and 5735 deaths -- none new in the US, which stands at 41 deaths, I believe. Mostly related to a hospice care type business in Washington. As opposed to H1n1, which had 61 million cases in the US and more than 15k deaths. Or the flu.
2009 H1N1 Pandemic
From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.
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Remember the Last Global Pandemic? Probably Not
That doesn’t seem fair, given that H1N1 did infect as much as
24% of the world’s population. The overall fatality rate was quite low, at about 0.02% of estimated cases — five time lower than the 0.1% average fatality rate for the seasonal flu — but that’s mainly because H1N1 had little effect on the demographic usually hit hardest by influenza: those 65 and older. For younger people, H1N1 was more dangerous than the seasonal flu, and in countries in South Asia and Africa with youthful populations the H1N1 pandemic really was a big deal, with the
CDC later estimating a global death toll ranging from 151,700 to 575,400.
Still, that’s lower than the range that the CDC and WHO now put on the
annual death toll from seasonal flu: 290,000 to 650,000. In the U.S.,
an estimated 60.8 million people contracted the new H1N1 virus from April 2009 through April 2010, 274,304 were hospitalized and 12,469 died. Because the CDC changed the statistical model it uses to make such estimates in 2010 that last number can’t really be compared to
recent estimates of seasonal flu fatalities, which ranged from 12,000 in 2011-2012 to 61,000 in 2017-2018. But
earlier estimates of overall flu-related deaths in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 indicate that both flu seasons were less deadly than average.
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