Day 42 Coronavirus vs SARS/Ebola/Swine Flu Grimacing face....-Active graph

[riversedge]

Coronavirus vs SARS/MERS/Ebola/Swine Flu
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Link to tweet

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[dewsgirl]

1. Scariest graph ever.

[jberryhill]

3. Because it is deceptively edited bullshit

Watch the WHOLE THING and decide if you've been lied to.

Jump to 1:36 of the ACTUAL video, and keep watching.

https://www.wthr.com/article/verify-viral-coronavirus-vs-sarsebolaswine-flu-graph-accurate-leaves-out-context

But the 40-second clip on twitter is missing important context.

We tracked down the original source of the clip to a 10-minute youtube video.

If you play beyond the 40 seconds from the viral clip, you’ll see that as you get into the hundreds of days on the chart, swine flu takes over and eventually reaches up to 60 million infected.

[ancianita]

5. For DHS head, Kathryn Sibelius, said this one shows 20X's the virulence over our usual flu viruses

[dewsgirl]

7. I've seen that graph a couple times on Twitter thanks, I hadn't

seen this.

[WePurrsevere]

2. On Edit: Apparently, while mostly accurate, the graphic has been edited to

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downplay how really bad the swine flu was compared to this Coronavirus at this time. Please read the link provided by jberryhill below for more info.

[jberryhill]

4. And that is how deceptive information spreads like a virus

https://www.wthr.com/article/verify-viral-coronavirus-vs-sarsebolaswine-flu-graph-accurate-leaves-out-context

[WePurrsevere]

6. Thank you. I had checked but didn't see this.

I'm going to delete my retweet from Twitter because it's misleading (not truly incorrect per the article you posted) to have edited it out the rest of the Swine Flu info.

WHAT WE FOUND

The numbers in the video are accurate for the date it was posted. At the time the video was posted, the new Coronavirus had infected more than 43,000 people worldwide. The latest WHO estimate is closer to 82,000.

The charts accurately reflect the data from the CDC and WHO on the infection rates of the coronavirus, SARS, MERS, Ebola and H1N1 (swine flu).

What does that mean? The current coronavirus is infecting more people at a faster rate than any of those other viruses had at this point in those outbreaks.

But the 40-second clip on twitter is missing important context.

We tracked down the original source of the clip to a 10-minute youtube video.

If you play beyond the 40 seconds from the viral clip, you’ll see that as you get into the hundreds of days on the chart, swine flu takes over and eventually reaches up to 60 million infected.

The original video was actually trying to show that coronavirus isn’t the worst - at least not yet.

Bottom line: We can VERIFY this video is true and that the numbers are accurate and come from reputable sources.

But the video doesn’t show the whole story and THAT context is key.

I don't know why people do that. This virus has the potential to be bad enough without misleading about something that was much worse. It's not a contest.