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A good historical comparison would be the "Spanish Flu" (also called the "1918 flu pandemic"). It lasted two years and infected about 500 million people, killing somewhere between 17 and 100 million in a time when world travel and global commerce was a tiny percentage of what takes place today.
That is really a terrible comparison. The Spanish flu was especially deadly to healthy people (IIRC, this was because it caused the body's immune system to overreact, so a better immune system -> bigger risk). That isn't the case with the coronavirus at all. It's most dangerous to people with weakened immune systems, similar to the common cold. It does seem to be a more dangerous disease overall, although I don't think we will have reliable numbers until some time after the whole thing dies over.
That is really a terrible comparison. The Spanish flu was especially deadly to healthy people (IIRC, this was because it caused the body's immune system to overreact, so a better immune system -> bigger risk). That isn't the case with the coronavirus at all. It's most dangerous to people with weakened immune systems, similar to the common cold. It does seem to be a more dangerous disease overall, although I don't think we will have reliable numbers until some time after the whole thing dies over.
