Health experts aren't seeing any signs that the coronavirus will be as catastrophic as the worst pandemic in recent memory: the 1918 Spanish flu.
The number of people infected with the new coronavirus has surpassed 100,000 worldwide, and deaths have been recorded in 18 countries and territories. Health experts say COVID-19 is more lethal than the seasonal flu.
But some experts say based on what’s known right now, there are no signs it will be as catastrophic as the worst pandemic in recent memory: theWe don’t know for certain, but at this point, “I think it’s nowhere near as bad as 1918,” saidThe 1918 flu is the quintessential pandemic, estimated to have killed 50 million people worldwide and 675,000 in the U.S. It’s the one that public health professors teach to students to show just how widely a disease can spread.
“It went around the world four times in one year when there were no airplanes,” said Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox. “That’s what it means to spread like wildfire.”Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions.But there are a lot of differences between the two., with fatalities high in those younger than 5, between the ages of 20 and 40 and those 65 and above.
The new coronavirus, by contrast, has so far spared babies, toddlers and young children from death, according to a
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