LIES. He cannot possibly know that without knowing the number of casese.
They don’t have perfect information on either the flu or the Coronavirus. But they know how many get sick enough to seek help. So they can make educated estimates.
They also have data points like the cruise ship where they know exactly how many got infected. And South Korea which tested over 200,000 people provides an excellent data point as well.
He has enough information to make the comparison to the flu.
And all of that information is pointing to this being between 10x and 30x worse than the flu.
None of it points to it being less lethal than the flu.