In Factfulness, that was written in collaboration with his son and daughter-in-law, he wrote about the last pandemic, the "swine flu" or H1N1 that occurred between January 2009 and August 2010, that he "got tired of the hysteria and calculated the rate of news reports versus fatalities.
Yet, I think that there's a couple more comparisons that are worth doing, inspired by Rosling's approach. In the case of this infographic above, they compared the media coverage of Covid-19 to past pandemics. In any event, as Hans Rosling likes to do in order to read data, it's best to compare. But the general gist is there and surely, I can be happy that I only have to wait for a 1/2 second for Google to count the total number of hits. I must point out that the number of results on Google News varies dramatically day by day, and, I would say, rather disarmingly so. In an exchange with the makers of this infographic, I learned that their data set is open access ( Google Doc) and available to all.
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