What lessons can be learned from studying the 1918 Influenza Pandemic that may help us better understand and fight the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Title: Similarities between Influenza and Covid-19
While studying the Influenza Virus and the Covid 19 Virus we can find something very similar. For starters, both of them attack our respiratory systems first. So, both of these viruses cause respiratory diseases. Both of them, as mentioned by Shen, Li Wen et al., may sometimes result to death and both of the viruses causes diseases that are sometimes asymptomatic while sometimes symptomatic. But most importantly, both viruses are transmitted by contact, droplets and fomites. Hence, even though, we do not know much...