Spanish flu: how not to deal with a pandemic

Coronavirus has reminded us of 1918 and the influenza that killed up to 100 million

Spanish flu nurses
Red Cross volunteers working to halt the Spanish flu epidemic in the US in 1918
(Image credit: Getty Images)

More than 80,000 people have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus and officials are preparing for it becoming the world’s next pandemic.

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