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Is the coronavirus a catastrophe on the scale of the spanish flu?
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Not yet but: we have some advantages. First, we now have great antibiotics to treat people with secondary bacterial infections. Science has really advanced regarding treatment for people going into respiratory or other types of organ failure. We know understand the function of hygiene with reducing disease. The whole world is now working on vaccines & treatment.
Answered 5/15/2020
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