WNU Editor: When I look at recent pandemics .... 1.1 million deaths Asian flu (1957 - 1958), 1.0 million deaths Hong Kong flu (1968 - 1970), and 200,000 deaths Swine flu (2009 - 2010) .... compared to today's 22,000 deaths from Covid-19 .... has the reaction been overblown? Will this pandemic produce the same death total numbers that pandemics in the past 60 years have produced even though the global population has more than doubled during this time and Covid-19 death rates are now declining in China, South Korea, and other Asian countries? Currently, the global number of Covid-19 cases is growing exponentially (see above graph) as well as its death toll. If this exponential death toll continues we will match the death toll numbers of the Asia flu (1.1 million in 1957 - 1958) in less than 2 months. Will that happen? And does it justify wreaking the global economy to make sure that it does not happen? We still do not know where this will end. But I am willing to bet that this is a debate that is going to happen once this is all over.
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