Your article says this...
“The virus appears to have sent hoards of people to their beds, but few - in percentage terms - to the hospital.”
It’s a flu. People get it no matter what the Letters and Numbers it’s tagged with. I’m not seeing 90,000 dead in the Southern Hemisphere.
It’s hard to know how many it will kill this winter. The 90k number is a scenario in which it kills a little less than three times the number the regular flu kills each year in the US (34,000 to 36,000). It is my hope that the vaccine is an effective one and that prevention measures and general awareness lower that 90k figure significantly.