Spanish flu vs COVID-19: An Australian perspective of a pandemic

Spanish flu vs COVID-19: An Australian perspective of a pandemic | Australian Story

By: OC Staff, July 31 2020

ABC News In-depth

Now that you’ve learned more about COVID-19, the Spanish Flu and some parallels between both, let’s take a look at this video from ABC News In-depth, an Australian Story.

It seems like very few people knew or even cared about the victims of the 1918-1919 pandemic. Not until COVID-19 struck. In Australia alone, there were 15,000 victors of the “forgotten flu”. Watch the Australian documentary.

Check out the parallels with the current pandemic — the mask-wearing, the quarantining, the social isolation — Australian Story goes into the archives and interviewed the country’s expert historians.

ABC News In-depth

Five things to know about COVID-19 transmission (WHO)

WHO

Watch this video to understand 5 important things to know about COVID-19, from the World Health Organization as of June 11, 2020.
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Spanish Flu: A Warning from History (Cambridge University)

Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston, Wikimedia Commons

It was roughly 100 years ago when the Spanish flu, also referred to as the 1918 flu pandemic infected 500 million people in its onslaught of 4 successive waves.
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