The fact that we have fewer deaths so far indicates we are more aware of what is going on in the world today than in 1968, and that we are apparently doing some things correctly. However it is still early, and we have a long way to go while climbing an exponential growth curve.
Are we more aware today than we were in 2018 the stats for flu in 2018 are quite astonishing 40 million cases, 647,000 hospitalized, 62,000 deaths so WHY was not EVERY case reported, EVERY death reported, wall to wall 24/7 coverage, hysteria everywhere forcing hospitals to be on overload!! WHY because it was not an election year!! Yes this is a bad virus HOWEVER the overreaction to this is absolutely ABSURD!!!