10-19-2020, 01:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-19-2020, 01:58 PM by BostonCard.)
As Mark Twain once said, "History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes"
As we are looking at a "third wave" of COVID, it is worth looking at what happened with influenza, 102 years ago.
![[Image: file-20200601-95032-126zcl7.png?ixlib=rb...crop&dpr=1]](https://images.theconversation.com/files/338977/original/file-20200601-95032-126zcl7.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=370&fit=crop&dpr=1)
You can see what happened, with a spike in deaths in the summer (peaking in early July), not unlike what happened with COVID-19 in the US (peak in cases was mid-July; peak in deaths was early August), and of course, we are now having a worrying rise in COVID-19 cases, not unlike what happened in the "second wave" of influenza back in the fall of 1918. Back then, there was a peak in cases in early November; if past is prologue, we are looking at a massive and very disconcerting peak in COVID-19 in late November.
BC
As we are looking at a "third wave" of COVID, it is worth looking at what happened with influenza, 102 years ago.
You can see what happened, with a spike in deaths in the summer (peaking in early July), not unlike what happened with COVID-19 in the US (peak in cases was mid-July; peak in deaths was early August), and of course, we are now having a worrying rise in COVID-19 cases, not unlike what happened in the "second wave" of influenza back in the fall of 1918. Back then, there was a peak in cases in early November; if past is prologue, we are looking at a massive and very disconcerting peak in COVID-19 in late November.
BC