I agree with you 100%. It's funny that the definition of pandemic excludes seasonal flus or we would have world wide panic every year. Here's my uneducated view point, is this a Pandemic - no, is it epidemic level in some areas - yes. The key, and it is a very loose, interpretive key, is how many epidemic areas does it take to be called a pandemic? China, Italy and Iran alone could be used to define a Pandemic. How much of a concentration is needed to be called an epidemic? The first cases around NYC were in a neighborhood north of Manhattan. and proportionately there were a lot in that neighborhood. Was this epidemic levels for that area? Yes, in the Neighborhood but not for the whole city. The maps that they show of the world with red dots is incredibly misleading and I believe intentionally so. The size of these 'dots' are increased in size as the number of cases grow in an area. Zoom in on the US and the scale of the dots starts to become a little more relevant to the pocket areas. Zoom in further and forget it, accuracy goes out the window. For example, the Texas maps shows cases only in the Killeen area which is totally false. I also don't believe there is any single area in Texas where the level of active infections constitute an epidemic. This type of presentation is only for imagery impact and not for accuracy. Basically in a couple of words, I believe it is 95% + Hype in the Americas, especially in the US Media.