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Experts take us through the similarities and differences between Spanish flu of 1918 and covid-19 of today
With covid-19 raging in the country, often references are made to the Spanish flu. Experts say that not only are there a few striking similarities between the pandemics, there are a lot of lessons to learn from the Spanish flu.
The causative virus for Spanish flu was
H1N1 Influenza A while it is SARS CoV 2 for covid-19, said Dr. Pradeep Rangappa (Senior Consultant - Critical Care, Columbia Asia Referral Hospital Yeshwanthpur). “The Spanish flu had more than four waves and lasted for 25 months. While the first wave was prevalent from February 15, 1918 to June 1, 1918, the second wave was from August 1, 1918 to December 2, 1918 and the third wave was from December 3, 1918 to April 30, 1919. Each wave lasted for about four months. Less than half countries were globally affected with Spanish flu with more than 500 million people infect
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For the nearly 90% of people who are testing positive for COVID-19 and having either mild or no symptoms, home isolation is recommended. With the spurt in cases, several healthcare service providers have begun to offer “COVID-19 home isolation” packages to these patients.
These packages include a wide range of services, such as teleconsulting with specialists, the monitoring of vitals thrice a day, customised meals, and contactless delivery of medicines and other essentials. The service providers offer these packages for rates starting from ₹500 a day.
RxDx Multispeciality Clinic, with five outlets in the city, is seeing an average of 20 COVID-19 positive patients being onboarded every day. Ashwani Sinha, chief impact officer of RxDx, said that since the outbreak of COVID-19, the clinic has helped over 1,500 persons recover at home. “The other area of growth is in collection of home samples. In this alone, we have witnessed a huge demand and ha
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Covid 2.0 is even more infectious than Covid 1.0
Covid 2.0 is even more infectious than Covid 1.0
BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / Updated: Apr 17, 2021, 06:00 IST
This time around the virus is behaving differently and the symptoms are different too
During the first wave, people who tested
Covid positive exhibited symptoms like fever, loss of smell and taste. But in the second wave, doctors are reporting that covid positive
patients are coming to them with symptoms of diarrhoea, body pain, joint pain, tiredness along with other symptoms seen during the first wave.
Covid 2.0 seems to be more infectious than the first wave and severe too.
For example, during the first wave when the first Covid case was reported in the City on March 8, 2020, there were 386 cases and 12 deaths in the first 84 days. During the second wave, which began almost during the same time, the difference is worrying. In the last 45 days, 1,06,674 Covid cases have been reported with 480 deaths. Though the c
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