Spanish Flu vs Covid 19: Then vs Now
With everything that has
happened from 2020-to 2022 COVID 19 has had a large effect on the world and so
many people around the world were affected by this deadly pandemic. However, there
was another pandemic that happened many years before this current one and that
was the Spanish Flu of 1918. The only difference between those pandemics is
that Covid 19 surpassed the Spanish Flu in deaths when it spread around 2020.
Spanish Flu and Covid 19
have been similar due to how deadly it was in the period. Both of them have
been spreading around the world, leaving many people hospitalized, jobs lost
and it results in millions of deaths due to the world being unprepared for this
deadly pandemic. Homeless and vulnerable people that were struggling from 2020-to
2022. The stress that everyday people
had to go through was from losing their jobs, being separated from loved ones, and
not having enough supplies to survive through the hard times.
Just like the Spanish
Flu, Covid 19 has been causing lockdowns, businesses going bankrupt and many people
end up in the hospital. The only difference is that the Spanish flu children
were more likely to get it while Covid 19 it was the adults that were vulnerable
to the virus. Another contrast is how during the process of the vaccines, the Spanish
Flu took place in the late 1910s-1920 so they didn’t have the technology to
produce a lot of doses for the patients that are infected. Covid on the other
hand despite lasting for almost two years had the technology to make a lot of
vaccine doses.
Although Covid is slowing
down, there are still many people that are vulnerable and still trying to
recover and survive from it. We can still donate to relief funds and provide
the supplies for them even if we are slowly getting back to normal. Both Covid
19 and Spanish Flu may seem like a common cold but if the spread doesn’t slow
down more patients will end up in the hospital causing stress and overwhelming the medical
workers and plans for normalization will slow down even more. The lessons we can learn from both Spanish Flu
and Covid 19 show that we must always come together as a community, doing our
part to prepare for another possible pandemic, support the people in the medical
field by slowing down the spread, get vaccinated so you have less chance of getting COVID and help out those that are vulnerable.
Written by Amy Nguyen
Click Here for more information:
https://www.verywellhealth.com/coronavirus-flu-differences-4798752
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11687-8
https://www.verywellhealth.com/coronavirus-flu-differences-4798752
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