I'm not worried about it. A whole lot of unfounded hysteria.
The CDC estimates that, 18,000 to 46,000 people
in the US have died from the flu in the 2019-202 flu season.
Meanwhile
the WHO reports 2,858 deaths
worldwide due to COVID-19.
Granted the fatality rate is significantly higher for COVID-19, using the # infected vs dead #'s
COVID-19 is fatal in 3.4% cases, and, in the US, it is less than 0.1%.
But that assumes that the # COVID-19 cases is accurately tracked. Since the vast majority of those cases are in China, I'm not sure how reliable their #'s are.
Also, the flu is a well established illness that the CDC, et al, have experience estimating the # of cases based on previous experience and thus use mathematical models to estimate the total # of cases from those that they have actual medical data on, as explained
here,
AFAIK, the COVID-19 infection #'s don't do that, but rely on actual data that indicates someone is infected.
So keep that in mind.
But let's do a thought experiment.
Assume that the US eventually develops the same # of cases that China has today (78K), with the same death toll (2.7K).
That's 15% of the deaths on the
low end of the estimate for the flu this year.
So which disease should we be worried about again?