Total: 3,830
US: 22
source:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/I'm opening this thread only so I can see how the numbers evolve over time in a simple format. If someone can get different or better updated numbers, I encourage you to post them, maybe every few days, as long as no-one posted them just before you did.
22 deaths out of the whole population of the US is nothing.
The media just try to frighten citizens.
Coronavirus is a flu that can be proven fatal, but a traditional flu can do the same in certain circumstances. The real problem exists in China, Iran and Italy right now.
It's not "just a flu", it spreads twice as much (its smaller, so it can pass thru those masks).
Pneumonia is not a joke, and this thing can trigger it.
OP message conveniently skips the rest of the world. Yes China had 22 deaths at some point, but those that kept saying it didn't matter, didn't take precaution.
You fail to understand that for each reported cases, there are several many unreported. Once you get 1 case, you can rest assured many more will come, since that single case could have spread the virus to several people long before being diagnosed. Same thing happens with deaths.
If this virus was more lethal, i can see North Korea as the only survivor. I can see their wisdom now... And you though isolating a country was bad.
The rest didn't stop travel so the virus took on the world with ease. No wonder there are so many zombie apocalypse shows, humanity is very weak.
This is not something to be ignored "just like any other flu", that thinking made the thing spread like wildfire with only one country serious enough to actually HALT travel (was easy, since most of the world had them "isolated" in the first place). Isolation is exactly one of the tools to fight outbreaks, in case you didn't notice. But it doesn't work when people downplay it.
Then you end doing idiotic things like that idiot in Australia diagnosed with COVID-19 who decided to go clubbing and to go work because "its just another flu" mindset. You'd have to wait two weeks for the results of that...