k0nr4d, your smarter than that, what part of No vaccination, No Immunity, No specific treatments, No containment.. are you not getting?
Death rate for the Flu in the USA is currently 14.9 per 100,000 people
https://www.kff.org/other/state-indi...ia-death-rate/
Coronavirus is slightly higher than that currently: 3,308 per 96,739
The flu has an R0 value of about 1.3
Coronavirus has an R0 value of about 2-3
Because most of us have been exposed to the flu before we have some built in immunity against it, we also know that the virus will be less prevalent in summer months... it fades away.
With Coronavirus its a "New" virus we have no idea what happens in summer IT IS NOT A FLU, we also have NO immunity, There's NO specific treatments, and just like Mers and Sars doubtful there will ever be a vaccine and even if we do have a vaccine on paper.. NO one has the capability of producing it in the quantities needed, let alone the needles and crap to administer it. Today they reported a mutation detected, if its not utilising younger humans now for harvesting it certainly will in a mutation or 3.
All we can do is contain it and try and keep the numbers within range of our hospital systems coping.... but to do that you need to know who has it.
If this thing doesn't burn its self out naturally and it may, we have serious problems as a species.