It's a flu bug just like any other. All this hype is done by the media to generate news.
Last year 80,000 people died from flu complications so what is the big deal if a few more kick the bucket because of the Wuhan strain?
https://weather.com/health/cold-flu/news/2019-02-15-flu-season-vaccine-illnesses-deaths
The current flu season has been milder than last year's, with the vaccine protecting about half the people who were inoculated and a less severe strain of the virus causing most of the illnesses that do occur.
However, there have been more deaths than usual from that milder strain, and there is evidence a more severe strain of the influenza virus is causing a growing percentage of illnesses.
Last year, more than
80,000 people died of the flu and its complications in the United States, the highest death toll for the disease in at least four decades.