Today, Spain reported more than 2000 new deaths from the China virus. So it may be hyped by the media but without a doubt it is a serious situation. Also it is clearly worse than the flu both because it is more contagious and because it is more deadly. It doesn’t look like it is as bad as the 1918 Spanish Flu but that could be because of the relatively quick response of governments through out the world to implement social distancing, etc. Fauci is predicting that it will be somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths in the US. But that could be reduced if we are diligent in social distancing, etc. In any case, this is not just another flu. We are seeing countries in Europe who are much smaller than the US losing thousands per day.