DATE CASES INCR INCR % 28th 87 22 33.85% 29th 105 18 20.69% 30th 118 13 12.38% 31st 153 35 29.66% -1st 177 24 15.69% -2nd 183 6 03.39%I agree that the numbers inside China are alarming in their explosion.
If we looked at the seasonal flu, we have numbers that dwarf these by ten to twenty times or more. Who knows where these numbers will wind up, but we don't term the flu a pandemic. It's mortality rate is higher than this.
While I do think health organizations have to be out front on things like this, I'm not convinced there's a lot to be gained by using alarming language. There's nothing the public can do about it.
Why are they going so crazy over this? They don't over the flu. They don't try to scare the holy hell out of people when it's the flu.
My guess is that it is probably acting like a hybrid flu and killing the young and strong. Those are the bugs that scare the CDC.
The normal human flu kills people with weak immune systems, the very young and very old, often by secondary pneumonia.
Hybrid flu kills healthy adults in their prime by cytokine storm and can do it in a hurry. Hybrid flus are a cross between an animal flu and a human flu. This virus is said to also have an animal origin. That’s what makes your immune system go berserk.
Because a core group of officials in the Chinese Government believe this virus escaped from a bioweapons laboratory in Wuhan and they are terrified of the potential consequences.