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.