What Missteps During the Spanish Flu Pandemic Can Teach Us About Celebrating Christmas Safely During COVID-19
Stay home this holiday season and save the big family reunion for after the Coronavirus vaccine next year
COVID-19 is the first modern pandemic since the great influenza pandemic of 1918, commonly known as the Spanish flu. While there is considerable variation in calculations of that global death toll (estimates range from 17 to 100 million) even the lowest estimates put the fatality rate at 1% of the total global population, with higher estimates at 6%. Now that we are experiencing our own (hopefully) once-in-a-century pandemic and entering into a second wave of infections, how the US government botched Christmas during that earlier pandemic can be used as a guide to make sure we don t re-make the same mistakes this millennium.
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