The problem with these respiratory viruses is that they will keep coming and may one day be the cause of our extinction. Not yet though.
Numbers will only be numbers if read without analysis. Data without analysis does not become information, information is strategized to become knowledge, what is needed by many countries is knowledge, not raw data or information that is half-measures. In fact, a pandemic with a mortality rate of only 1% is enough to make waves in the world economy, ranging from superpowers to poor countries. Coronavirus may not need to be feared, because the death rate is not as high as Ebola, but the fact is the damaging effect on a large scale and broad and multi-dimensional. The Corona pandemic created a momentum of opportunity and created panic.