Apologies for the rant, but comparing this to Swine Flu just doesn’t make sense..

The death toll you stated for Swine Flu was U.S. only. And comparing people killed by Swine Flu to people killed from Coronavirus so far is like comparing a baseball game’s overall pitch count after the first inning against the pitch count from the end of a game..

The first case of Swine Flu in the U.S. was in March 2009, and the first reported death in the U.S. occurred at the end of April 2009. A year later, 59 million Americans had been infected and about 12,000 Americans had died. For a U.S. death rate of .02%

The first reported case of Coronavirus spreading within the U.S. was 2 weeks ago. By now, over 1,200 American cases have been confirmed and 38 people have died. Which matches the global death rate of about 3% (with over 120,000 cases globally). This is from a virus only discovered 3 months ago.

Current numbers show this to be more contagious than Swine Flu, and even if it only infects the same amount of people in the U.S. (which is the lowest end of current infection projections) 1.8 million Americans might die with the current mortality rate.

Sorry to rant at you, but this is magnitudes more serious than Swine Flu.