While the global focus on the new coronavirus epidemic and national governments offering a number of travel, flight ban and other measures, the flu is also raging in the united states, but the attention is relatively low.
The British Broadcasting Corporation The difference between the new coronavirus and the new one is explained by expert analysis, which explains why the degree and attention of the new coronavirus is much higher than that of the new one.
Low influenza epidemic awareness
As of 10 a.m. on february 13th, china`s single-day confirmed cases had suddenly risen by 15111, with 252 deaths at death, china`s largest single-day confirmed cases. Currently, the number of coronavirus patients worldwide has reached 1,367.
Countries around the world imposed a travel ban on China, imposed quarantine measures, and sent charter flights to evacuate the outbreak site of the people in Wuhan. China has announced an extension of the Spring Festival holiday, with several companies allowing employees to work at home. In Hong Kong, TW has announced a delay in school opening.
Faced with coronavirus epidemic, local government, people are trembling, and even the phenomenon of buying masks. However, another virus, the epidemic has also continued to rise, in the United States has caused 10,000 dead, TW also died of the flu last week 14 people.
After the start of the flu season in September 2019,19 million people in the United States have been infected,180,000 have been hospitalized and 10,000 have died. In addition, there have also been flu outbreaks in Europe, China mainland, Japan and TW.
TW flu season death population has reached 56. The cumulative number of severe influenza cases this season has reached a high of nearly 1,000, reaching a five-year high, with 14 people dying of flu last week, one of them aged 23, on the day of medical treatment, according to the department.
Because of the changing flu virus, a new flu virus may emerge every year. Seasonal flu usually starts in October and November and can last until the end of May, with the peak in the United States from December to February.
China`s Ministry of Foreign Affairs speaker Hua Chunying told a journallist meeting in early February that the state media, Think Tank and experts and scholars, were concerned about the adverse effects of excessive restrictions taken by some countries. U.S. flu has infected 19 million people and killed more than 10,000, a higher proportion than in China, it said.
As of february 13, china (excluding hong kong and macau) had diagnosed nearly 60,000 new coronaviruses, while 60,314 were diagnosed and 1,367 were diagnosed.
The number of flu deaths significantly outstrips the number of new coronaviruses, but the attention of national media, government and people remains unmatched. Comprehensive medical experts comment, can be summed up the reasons include: virus infectivity is high, unknown, the impact on social economic level.
Fighting wuhan pneumonia has become an arduous battle against time.
Fatality and Infectious Power
The national geographic website reports that comparing the severity of the disease requires very complex calculations and weighing factors such as disease transmission, death rates, the severity of the consequences, and the socio-economic impact of blocked cities.
Whether seasonal flu or a new type of H1N1 flu, which affects millions of people, the site found a mortality rate of about 0.1%. Epidemics such as SARS, MERS or the new coronavirus are more severe, with the death rate reaching 10%, although only about 8,000 people worldwide are infected.
In terms of the number of people infected, the confirmed number of new coronaviruses has significantly exceeded that of SARS, with a death rate of about 2%. "The coronavirus is 20 times more deadly than flu," the report said, perhaps explaining why the public is so worried.
In addition to the fatality rate, the rate of transmission of the new coronavirus is also significantly higher in terms of daily diagnoses. The number of SARS cases worldwide was 8096, and the number of new coronaviruses exceeded 60,000 by February 13.
More than 90 percent of SARS patients are severe, but the coronavirus has many mild symptoms, but it`s still the same, so it`s much better to imagine the chance of spreading the epidemic than SARS, according to Marshawn, a researcher at TW central research institute.
However, coronaviruses are still much less contagious than flu. However, as the current study of the coronavirus is still not much, fever is no longer an absolute criterion, has been diagnosed but no fever, asymptomatic conditions.
The symptoms of influenza are relatively clear. The flu is now well-established and can be confirmed by a fast-screening tool.
Unknown and fear
Amira Roses, a global health and epidemiologist at George Mason University in the US, said that in the early stages of an outbreak of infectious diseases, much of the panic came from fear of the unknown, stressing:" Fear not only does not stop the spread of the virus, but has a negative social impact. "
Nancy Messonnier, director of the Centers for Immunity and Respiratory Diseases of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said: "We have sufficient knowledge of the influenza virus and countermeasures such as the flu vaccine; the new crown virus was only six weeks ago. Yes, we do n ` t know about the virus and we do n ` t have corresponding preventive measures. "
Currently there is no new coronavirus vaccine, the current treatment is mainly for patients to relieve symptoms, support life, this includes oxygen, infusion, ventilator and so on. Influenza can be treated with antiviral agents such as gram flu.
In addition, the public has questioned China`s actions to prevent the spread of the epidemic, such as the announcement by the Wuhan Health and Health Commission of China in late December 2019 that "unknown pneumonia" had been discovered.
Several u. s. federal senor on february 12th proposed a resolution calling for beijing, information on the epidemic should be open and transparent. Chang jinhua, a professor at the news institute at tw university who has long studied china, told The British Broadcasting Corporation in chinese that this is why china`s government`s early control of information on the epidemic has led to a lack of emphasis on the virus.
However, World Health Organization Secretary-General Tan Desai has repeatedly praised China`s transparency in epidemic information, and said he is confident in China`s ability to prevent the epidemic, and that the global response to the epidemic is comparable.
Media reports on the new corona have raised concerns about the new coronavirus, as have national travel bans and measures to target the epidemic.
Numerous reports of coronaviruses are rife in the media that could cause the epidemic to become overly panic, with london-based medicine jornalist stuart commenting on the euronews website that other social issues or health issues should be of concern.
Many media use "deadly viruses" or "outbreaks" to describe the new coronavirus, more like a disaster movie than a reflection of the real situation. She agrees that this is a public health emergency and that authoris must improve protection for vulnerable groups, but that the risk of the disease is low for the european public.
However, part of the analysis says that overreaction to the new coronavirus is not entirely bad, because it means better precautions.
