Why do so many questions about the coronavirus get posted in the Politics section instead of Diseases or Health where they should be?

Management of a pandemic is a political issue.

Mine went straight into P&S Meg. :-)

Because this is a disease which has bought the world into a pandemic crisis, the like not seen for more than a century.

Which is affecting every aspect of the lives of people all over the world. With more than one third of the world's population under some form of shutdown.

This is being dealt with politically all over the world. For example the punishment for breaking the lockdown where in the UK you will be fined £30 ($36 US) to Russia where you can get 7 years in jail, to the Phillipines where you can be shot.

What is this virus if not a political issue?

It has been getting to political. Many politicians are blaming on China. However, that covid-19 is a natural disaster. It was bat infected human according to experts. Bats are common in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat 

That means, there can be multiple sources of bat infections in the world. Politicans cared about social distancing. They should add a distance of bats' nest by 6 meters. 

The Politics section gets more traffic, if you consider morons and trolls to be traffic.

Because it has become an issue if politics also

Because people know where they can get the most responses/reaction, and there is a political aspect to the issue in how it's being handled by each country's government.  I notice you posted in CE, not Politics (the subcategory you are questioning). What's your KNOWLEDGE seeking question?

Because many governemnts should hang their heads in shame.

They are in the right place, it's top of the political agenda and not just about health, it's affecting tax collection and business. Deafness isn't, that should be in health.

Because Republicans made it a political issue.