new tonight three possible cases of
coronavirus in michigan have come back
negative but a fourth case out of
Washington off County was sent to the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention for testing today right now
there are five confirmed cases of corona
virus in the US and the results of 73
other cases are still pending as the
corona virus continues to make headlines
around the world some people here in
mid-michigan are starting to worry but
local experts say there's no need to
panic
Fox forty sevens Nicole Buckman explains
there are far more cases of the flu out
there there's far more reasons to be
concerned over getting the flu according
to the CDC the flu has already sickened
at least 13 million Americans this
winter hospitalizing 120,000 and killing
nearly 2,000 and the ingham county
health department says this flu season
hasn't even peaked yet we should be more
concerned about that they're far more
likely to die from flu which begs the
question why aren't Americans as
concerned over the flu there are just
certain reasons that people don't think
about it as soon as it's like oh h1n1
when that happened several years ago
then all of a sudden we have this
heightened oh my gosh that h1n1 flu well
you know what that h1n1 flu is still out
there because as soon as that became a
pandemic flu it then became our normal
year-to-year circulating strain Vail
says because this strain of the corona
virus is new and different and there is
no known vaccine for it
that's what's adding to the worldwide
fear it's novel and then once it's novel
and in humans and it starts spreading
person-to-person it can be more serious
and it can spread more quickly McClaren
is monitoring the current US cases and
the one possible case in Michigan but
says no specific precautions need to be
made in the hospital we have precautions
that we're taking with the flu type
patients which female may represent
similar type symptoms to this there
wouldn't be anything extra right now
we're keep doing what we're doing bill
says the flu season may be even better
this year due to the heightened
coronavirus concern and that more people
are taking health precautions
wash your hands cover your cough stay
home when you're sick or all the things
that people are now like oh my gosh we
got to do this to keep from getting
coronavirus so maybe we'll amp up
little activity on the wash your hands
cover your coughs stay home when you're
sick for Fox 47 News I'm Nicole Buckman
the Health Department is also
recommending the flu shot during this
time because it is peak flu season test
results from the newest possible
Michigan case should be released within
the next several days we will of course
let you know what those results are