Cars kill almost as many people as influenza, and costs far more in marginal QALY (younger, healthier people). Flu isn't so incredible. What's insidious is tha

Cars kill almost as many people as influenza, and costs far more in marginal QALY (younger, healthier people). Flu isn't so incredible. What's insidious is that it's just not bad enough to make it worth the cost of prevention (and it's hard to prevent -- the vaccine is a luck shot every year, as flu has strains and mutates), but it's the rumble before the storm, as one of a family of viruses of varying parameters that occasionally strike far worse (every few decades). A general solution to viruses, something like gene therapy, would be a very big deal, perhaps more than cancer treatment, in eliminating perhaps the largest non-self-imposed threat to humanity. > We’ve updated our atypical Illness map to reflect the cumulative amount of atypical illnesses we’ve observed since March 1 — previously this map reflected only new atypical illness, updated daily. Whyyyy??? that's incredibly stupid way of obscuring information by multicounting, that at best adds no value because the integral of an exponential is still exponential, and at worst makes a hash of it. The only rationale I can see is to make the numbers bigger and more clickbaity.