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Comparing the Viruses

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Jolly

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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/scott-gottlieb-coronavirus-would-have-been-far-more-deadly-than-spanish-flu-if-it-appeared-in-1918/
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Interesting.

I had heard him speculate on twitter about the opposite comparison - how much better the Spanish flu would've been with modern medicine.
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Interestingly it was the Russian Flu that was deadliest most recently. What a difference a month makes.
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