“So this is the next in a long line of “latest and greatest” pandemics that are going to kill us off.”
It is one of the World Health Organization’s top threats for monitoring, for pandemic potential (like influenza, ebola, Zika, MERS-CoV, SARS, cholera, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS).
It is one of the rare ones, but one which has the characteristics to be really bad (human to human transmission, incubation period long enough for wide travel, highly fatal).
I’m not doubting you it’s just that it seems there is a new pandemic scare at least once a year. Where I live people are always worried about West Nile virus. West Nile is not a pandemic but the outbreak scares get old.