1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Compared with Covid-19

by Duncan MacDonald

Overview

We investigate the 1918 Spanish Flu, and compare it with older and newer flu pandemics, including the latest information on the current Covid-19. The Spanish Flu was unusual in killing mostly young and healthy adults, as opposed to more common influenzas, that cause mortality among newborn or the old and infirm. The Spanish Flu could strike suddenly, and rendered victims too feeble to walk within hours. Many would die the next day. The Spanish Influenza killed a high proportion of 20 to 40 year old's. Covid-19 mostly affects those over the age of 65, especially those with pre-existing illnesses.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165741333
Publisher:	Duncan MacDonald
Publication date:	12/27/2021
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	400,716
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Duncan is an Australian currently living in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is married to Shinta Dewi Sanawiya, muse, mate, motivator and President Director of the business he founded in 1993, dMAC Group in Asia, now PT Daya MACro Dinamika.
Duncan has had a passion for history since childhood. He travelled alone to Turkey in 1975 to visit ANZAC Cove, scene of Australia and New Zealand’s entry to World War I. He then worked for 5 years in London, enabling him to research the Roman Empire’s occupation of Britain and question the Arthurian legends. He has published his illustrated historical e-novels set in Ireland and Britain in the 1st-7th centuries on Smashwords. Search for 'Culann - Celtic Warrior Monk'.
Duncan has also published an illustrated account of his private pilgrimage to 'Anzac Cove and Lone Pine in 1975' - Search for 'Anzac'
Those interested in obtaining the latest historical information on the Battle of Waterloo, (detailing who actually defeated Napoleon) can download Duncan's illustrated version in dMAC Digest Vol 4 No 6 'Waterloo'. Also the Jakarta Journals, tracing Indonesian history over the past 2,000 years, up to granting of Independence in December 1949.
Any one of Duncan's 12 'dMAC Digest Health & History' magazines, or 5 illustrated historical novels can be downloaded at Smashwords.
'Britannia Bulletin #1 and #2' are the latest illustrated historical novel published by Duncan. Set in the 1st & 2nd century CE we follow the adventures of a Roman Legionary in Europe & Britain. He records the lives of the early Roman Emperors and Governors of Britannia, their initial rise to power and occasional fall from grace. Major battles are dealt with in detail.