This media would rather scare you than inform you."---Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith shared a link.

"This is an example of the type of dangerous hyperbole I have been trying to point out.
Note the headline:"Coronavirus 10 times more lethal than seasonal flu, top health official says"
OMG! We're all going to die!
Note this in the article:"Fauci said the coronavirus is 10 times deadlier than the seasonal flu, which has a 0.1 percent mortality rate."
Let's do the math - 10 times 0.1% is 1%.
1%.
That's right. 1%.
If it is really 1%, this pandemic will be the least lethal pandemic in the past 50 years.
The Hill counts on people not to do the math. 

This media would rather scare you than inform you."

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the outbreak will get worse and warned the U.S. must take serious mitigation efforts.

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Coronavirus 10 times more lethal than seasonal flu, top health official says

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the outbreak will get worse and warned the U.S. must take serious mitigation efforts.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the outbreak will get worse and warned the U.S. must take serious mitigation efforts.