While a vaccine is great news, we need media to quit doing the if it bleeds it leads.
They've got the average person thinking 10 times as many people have died from the virus (this is based on actual data). People were surveyed and they answered with their percieved count, same thing with the morality rate, the percieved rate was 9%, when in reality for anyone under 70 it's less than 0.1%. Those older than 70 are looking at maybe a 3% mortality rate.
As we've collected data, the reality is that we're not dealing with Spanish flu 2.0 or even the Hong Kong flu.
The economic damage is much worse than the ramifications of just getting on with life. I understand a need to stop and gather data, but continuing on an emotionally driven fear that ignores facts is outrageous.