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    This document compares the COVID-19 pandemic to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Some key similarities are that both viruses originated from an animal source and spread rapidly globally. Estimates of the case fatality rate for COVID-19 are around 2.3%, similar to estimates for the Spanish flu. However, there are also differences after 100+ years of advances in public health, population growth, and globalization. Adhering to practices like social distancing and government cooperation can help reduce deaths from COVID-19 compared to the massive loss of life from the Spanish flu due to a lack of such practices at that time.

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    This document compares the COVID-19 pandemic to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Some key similarities are that both viruses originated from an animal source and spread rapidly globally. Estimates of the case fatality rate for COVID-19 are around 2.3%, similar to estimates for the Spanish flu. However, there are also differences after 100+ years of advances in public health, population growth, and globalization. Adhering to practices like social distancing and government cooperation can help reduce deaths from COVID-19 compared to the massive loss of life from the Spanish flu due to a lack of such practices at that time.

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    This document compares the COVID-19 pandemic to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Some key similarities are that both viruses originated from an animal source and spread rapidly globally. Estimates of the case fatality rate for COVID-19 are around 2.3%, similar to estimates for the Spanish flu. However, there are also differences after 100+ years of advances in public health, population growth, and globalization. Adhering to practices like social distancing and government cooperation can help reduce deaths from COVID-19 compared to the massive loss of life from the Spanish flu due to a lack of such practices at that time.

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    Is COVID_19 a wave of Spanish Flu?

    History has a tendency to repeat itself. As


    memory fades, events from the past can
    become events of the present. Some, like
    author William Strauss and historian Neil Howe,
    argue that this is due to the cyclical nature of
    history — history repeats itself and flows based
    on the generations. According to them, four
    generations are needed to cycle through before
    similar events begin to occur, which would put
    the coming of age of the millennial generation
    in parallel to the events of the early 20th
    century. “Marcus Thuillier”.
    The uneven response to the spanish flu also
    offers lesson as the US and other world respond
    to covid 19 which has affected about 196
    countries and 16,362 are confirmed deaths
    globally uptill now.
     As the number of coronavirus cases
    stretching worldwide, it may be easy to
    juxtapose covid19 virus to another global
    pandemic that forego to the early 20th
    century ,”The Spanish flu.”
     Spanish flu didn’t actually come from Spain
    because Spain remained neutral during the
    war, its press was free to report deaths,
    leading many to believe the country was
    badly affected by the pandemic.
     According to Jeffrey Taubenberger, MD,
    PhD, writing for the CDC's Emerging
    Infectious Diseases journal estimated
    about 500 million people, or about one-
    third of the world’s population at the time,
    became infected with the virus. It’s up in
    the air exact number of desths by virus due
    to medical records at the time, but
    estimates clinch around 50 million deaths
    including 675,000 Americans .
     Due to emerging cases of COVID-19’s
    around the globe it’s easy to compare the
    two viruses -- but one should realize there
    have been 102 years between the
    pandemics.In those 102 years, the world’s
    population has grown from around 1.5
    billion to over 7 billion, public health has
    been alterd substantially.and the birth of air
    travel and global supply chains have
    anchored far corners of the world, but
    some similarities are compelling us to think
    that may be COVID_19 is the wave of
    spanish flue
     For one, both diseases seemed to be

    primeval from an animal source. Research


    into H1N1 Spanish flu virus genes suggests
    the deadliest wave of the outbreak came
    from a bird, though no one knows exact
    cause, In the same way health experts
    suspect an animal initially hosted the
    COVID-19 coronavirus strain before
    infecting humans, though the animal has
    not been identified.
     Another similarity is how quickly
    both viruses appear to escalate. Spanish flu
    infected an estimated 1/3 of the global
    population. And although much remains
    unknown about COVID-19, the disease has
    spread rapidly from its origin in China in late
    December and now can be found on every
    continent except Antarctica.
    Mortality Rate May Be Similar for
    Coronavirus (COVID-19)
     The death rate of Spanish influenza was
    vastly greater than the average seasonal flu,
    Dr. Taubenberger said. The case-fatality
    rate is estimated to have been greater than
    2.5%.By comparison, he says, the fatality
    rate in subsequent flu pandemics has been
    less than 1%.
    Comparisons are hard to determine. Since
    new information about COVID-19 is
    calculated by different organizations and
    governments in different ways, much work
    remains to determine the disease's true
    case-fatality rate. But one JAMA study
    published in February estimates the case-
    fatality rate at 2.3%, nearly identical to
    Spanish flu estimates.
     But one should know that the main reason
    behind immense loss of people during
    spanish flu was lack of common sense
    practices.
     We can make this COVID_19 different from

    spanish flue by cooperating with


    government . keeping the social distance
    and staying at home helped us to combat
    this deadly virus.In this way we can lessen
    the death toll around the globe.Apart from
    this ,we should be grateful that we are in
    much better place to handle a pandemic
    than we were 100 year before.

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