"The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering."
The mortality rate for the last "cases are surging" was estimated to have been 3.4% per year, but after three full years the actual mortality rate according to only officially recognized numbers was 0.1% over the entire period.
Surging.
well, blame China for the panic
A number of Nations have moved to high health alerts already.