Around 250k to 500k people die from influenza epidemics each year (according to WHO, and the Doctor). The second wave of 1918 flu pandemic killed around 30M to

Around 250k to 500k people die from influenza epidemics each year (according to WHO, and the Doctor). The second wave of 1918 flu pandemic killed around 30M to 100M people from the 500M people infected. There's two factors to flu virus : spread and severity. The last influenza pandemic may have been "overhyped" and exploited by pharma companies, but we were also lucky that it had high spread but relative low mortality rate. The NCoV seems to have a high mortality rate. "Prevention is preferable to cure" (moreover when there isn't any cure ready yet).