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Spanish flu came and went and so will Covid-19

In 1918, 500 million people – one third of the world’s population at the time – was infected by the Spanish flu. Out of those infected, 50 million died. The people who were alive must have thought that the world was ending.

There wasn’t much hope on the horizon because the Spanish flu kept snuffing out life like a wind snuffing out candles.

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