The only pandemic comparable to the current event caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the disease called COVID-19, was that of the Spanish Flu in 1918. At that time, with slow and scarce intercontinental transport, diseases spreading infectious diseases were unlikely. Nowadays, on the contrary, the ability to move a highly infectious virus is enormous. […]
The only pandemic comparable to the current event caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the disease called COVID-19, was that of the Spanish Flu in 1918. At that time, with slow and scarce intercontinental transport, diseases spreading infectious diseases were unlikely. Nowadays, on the contrary, the ability to move a highly infectious virus is enormous. […]