This isn't correct. It wasn't just looked upon like the flu. In December there were reports of an uptick of people dying of pneumonia. When they did CT scans,

This isn't correct. It wasn't just looked upon like the flu. In December there were reports of an uptick of people dying of pneumonia. When they did CT scans, they saw that their lungs had glassy nodules which was not normal. This was the way that they identified something new was spreading.