A hundred years ago, the world was gripped by a pandemic. Today the world is again in the grips of an uncaring and unrelenting pandemic. When will the next one come, will we be ready? This book seeks to compare Covid-19 with the Spanish Flu, with a view to extracting and documenting the lessons we have learned, and should have learned. Armed with this information, we can be better prepared for when the next pandemic strikes.
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Farzana Prior. Spanish Flu vs Covid-19, which is the worst pandemic?
Prologue
A Tale of Two Cities
Spanish Flu in Other US Cities
Covid-19 - European Union vs United States
Origin and Spread of two vIruses
Excess Mortality
Who did the virus target?
Symptoms - two diseases
Pathophysiology of Covid-19 testing
Mutations – an overview
Viral structure and Function
Transmissibility vs Severity
Pandemic Alert scale
Covid-19 Success stories
Is Covid-19 a man-made virus?
New pandemics on the Horizon
EpIlogue
References
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Cover: Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas.
Attribution: Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine / Public domain
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Studies found that cities that acted quickly and forcefully, like St Louis, which imposed complete lockdown within two days of its first Spanish Flu case, had much lower peak death rates, than cities like New Orleans, Boston, and Philadelphia.
Police officers in Seattle during the Spanish flu epidemic
