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Comparison between Spanish flu and COVID 19

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The Spanish flu did not originate in Spain — fact one. Fact two — it was the era before antibiotics and vaccines. The “Spanish flu” unleashed its deadly run from 1918. That was 10 years before penicillin, the first true antibiotic (discovered in 1928 by Prof. Alexander Fleming, a Bacteriology teacher at St. Mary's Hospital in London). Photo shows Red Cross litter carriers transporting a victim of Spanish Flu in Washington DC in 1918.

Considered the biggest and deadliest pandemic in modern history, the Spanish flu has been dubbed as the "the worst catastrophe of the 20th century", infecting an enormous number of people who died very quickly. It killed more people in one year than the four-year "Black Death" Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351.

Influenza has afflicted humanity for ages. In 1733, Gagliarde used the term “influenza”, from the Italian word “influence” — which originally meant a “disaster from heaven”. The ancient Italians believed that there was a close relationship between disaster and astronomical phenomena. Numerous beliefs of a similar nature have been found in the Chinese literature. Hippocrates, known as the "Father of Medicine", recorded the first known influenza epidemic in 412 BC, and numerous outbreaks were reported during the Middle Ages. The most notable epidemic was the “Spanish influenza”, which occurred in 1918.

China has locked down dozens of cities, reportedly populated by up to 50 million inhabitants, after the Covid-19 outbreak to prevent its spread.

Using the video conferencing app Zoom, Parlak teaches the vigorous exercise from her studio in Istanbul's hip Cihangir district. She limits her classes to five students as she did in the studio, and says Zoom has made it easier to critique her students' moves with all video images lined up on her screen. | Above: Parlak talks to her students watching from home.