What caused the 2020 US flu? Which is more serious, the 2020 US flu or the Chinese pneumonia?

Which is more serious, the flu in the United States or the pneumonia in China? If you look closely, the number of deaths from flu in the United States is quite high, but the United States is not panicking at all, while the whole world is watching the pneumonia in China. Why is the new coronavirus so concerned? That is because it is an unknown virus to humans, there is no specific medicine or vaccine, and it is so contagious that people have to be forced to be isolated. For details, please see the detailed introduction provided by this website.

What causes the 2020 flu in the United States?

For the United States, influenza is not a public health emergency. It visits humans every winter. According to the US CDC, since 2010, the number of influenza cases in the United States has ranged from 9 million to 45 million, and the number of influenza-related deaths has ranged from 12,000 to 61,000. Although influenza strikes fiercely every year and relevant warnings are issued every year, it has not attracted enough attention from Americans, who think it is a cliché. Horses continue to run, dances continue to be danced, meetings continue to be held, and classes continue to be attended.

Moreover, there is a vaccine for influenza. According to CDC data, the influenza vaccination rate in the United States from 2016 to 2017 reached 43.3% among minors and about 59.0% among adults, making the disease truly preventable and controllable.

Therefore, most Americans are dismissive of the flu outbreak, or take rest, infusion and painkillers to deal with it after being infected with the virus, which can easily lead to serious illness. After all, medical expenses in the United States are too high.

Which is more serious, the flu in the United States or the pneumonia in China in 2020?

Pneumonia in China is more serious.

1. Pneumonia Epidemic

One person has directly or indirectly spread the virus to about 1,000 people before being diagnosed. You can roughly calculate that when the first case was diagnosed on the 8th day, there were about 3,000 virus spreaders. And from the discovery of the first case on December 8, 2019 to the lockdown of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, a period of 44 days.

The coronavirus has a mortality rate of 1%, with the majority of the dead being elderly people. However, the virus is extremely unstable and is constantly evolving. There is a possibility that it may evolve into an enhanced virus that is lethal to adults, so it should not be taken lightly.

According to the data of newly confirmed and suspected patients in Wuhan in recent days, the data is very stable, with about 8,000 new and suspected cases every day. However, the problem is very serious. Have you ever thought that it is not that the number of people sick has stabilized, but that Wuhan’s hospitals can only receive so many people for examination every day? This is why the country has mobilized a large number of medical staff to support Wuhan. The situation is very serious, not as simple as imagined.

2. Flu in the United States

After talking about the coronavirus epidemic, let me talk about why the US government is not nervous at all even though more than 10,000 people died from influenza in the United States.

First of all, we need to recognize the fact that every winter in the United States, more than 10 million people get the flu, and the flu kills more than 6,000 people, which is less than one in a thousand. It is clear that there is a flu epidemic (simply called a viral cold) every winter in the United States, and it was a little serious this year, with about 19 million people getting the flu and more than 10,000 people dying.

More importantly, the influenza virus is very stable and the possibility of causing disease is extremely low. There is also a vaccine, which is provided free of charge to children in the United States. Moreover, the virus poses almost no harm to adults. There is currently no evidence that any American adult has died from influenza.

According to statistics, 80% of the people who die from influenza in the United States each year are over 60 years old. Perhaps the US policy is hoping that the influenza virus will come more violently, so as to get rid of these idle people who have no contribution value and are still eating up the national treasury. Most of the children who died from influenza were families who did not listen to the US government's advice and were unwilling to vaccinate their children.

If you use a VPN to read news from the mainstream American media, you won't find much about the flu in the country. Almost all pages have reports on Chinese pneumonia, its impact on the United States, opportunities for American manufacturing, and other articles.

In the face of the epidemic, we can only avoid going with the flow if we recognize the truth, believe in the country and believe in ourselves. Every challenge is an opportunity for us to break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly. Come on Wuhan, come on China!

Why China's COVID-19 is more of a concern than the flu in the U.S.

First, the tens of millions of people infected are only predicted by the CDC's mathematical model. Second, this is not the worst in a decade.

Third, all deaths are related deaths, not causal deaths like the coronavirus.

Fourth, there is no comparison between influenza virus and novel coronavirus. There is a vaccine for influenza virus, and its mortality rate and danger are far lower than novel coronavirus.

The flu in the United States is caused by a virus we are all familiar with. Although the death toll seems high, the mortality rate is not high, so there is no need to panic; the new coronavirus is something new, and it makes people vigilant. Although the number of deaths is small, the mortality rate is much higher than that of ordinary flu, and there is also the possibility of mutation, so it must be taken seriously. Can I understand it this way?

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