Chill, Please

Even though I'm guilty of getting on the flu pandemic bandwagon early on, I had good reason.
But the story has deteriorated. Look, it's the lead story tonight that there are six cases in Washington.
Every year 35,000 Americans die of the effects of the ordinary, yearly flu. Most are old feebs like me who get complications — pneumonia — because they're feebs and their immune systems are compromised.
What they need to tell us over and over is what pandemic means, the history of such viruses and the potential for either fizzling out, staying the same, or skyrocketing into a global threat.
Instead we get this horse race thingie going. I admit it, I would be reporting the first case in Kitsap County, too. But I'd get that other stuff into the second paragraph.
I'm looking for the AP story on this, just to see who's going for the throat.