This year’s number of deaths caused by the common flu (influenza virus) is on the lower end of the spectrum, somewhere between 20,000 and 50,000 the experts say, in years past the death toll as high as 100,000 and never the economy shutdown, until this year with a virus the wuhan which has killed a relatively minuscule 270 or so, although certainly more than that died of it pre front page news.
