China’s Coronavirus - A Global Health Emergency is Launched. What are the Facts -- January 31, 2020

China’s Coronavirus - A Global Health Emergency is Launched. What are the Facts

By Larry Romanoff 

Global Research, January 31, 2020

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While this coronavirus is indeed serious and is causing deaths, one wonders if the responses, especially in the West, are reaching out of control.

Canada, with a population about the same as Shanghai, has so far this flu season had more than 20,000 confirmed cases, 2,200 hospitalisations, and 85 deaths, roughly the same as all of China with the new corona virus at the same time. But there is no panic in Canada about the flu, and United Airlines isn’t cancelling all flights to Canada.

By the same token for the US in this flu season, there have been 140,000 hospitalisations and about 8,500 deaths.

But the flu barely rates a mention in the US media and the government is not shuttering cities or air travel. Even more, in 2017, the US recorded 61,000 fatalities from the flu with 45 million becoming very ill, yet there was no national emergency cited and life remained normal.(1)