Look, the hype behind this is huge and why exactly? If it's true then we're gonna wait 18 months for the cure. Guess what, it's (again) pharmacy house that's gonna grab trillions of dollars for a vaccine.
It's not like you can prepare for a flu of such a huge scale. It matters how good your medical system is but besides that you can do nothing about it. You still have to go work, you still have to walk around the town filled with people etc. You can't even do anything in order to try to avoid it. Yet, the media make it sound like the world is collapsing. The economic impact of this is huge and it's gonna hit (only) China.
Also, statistics are shit. Statistics are shit even in football, let alone in such a topic.