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Abstract :
It’s been more than a year since COVID-19 is creating havoc all over the world. We have been through two waves since its outbreak in 2019. If we go some 100 years back, we find something that was more or less equally intense in the past called as the ‘Spanish flu’ also known as the ‘1918-19 influenza pandemic’, that infected around 500 million people of which 50 million lost their lives. On a closer look at both the pandemics, there are lot of similarities with regards to its outbreak, spread and mortality rates. This creates suspicion that just like the third wave of Spanish flu, there might be the third wave of COVID-19 too.
Keywords :
COVID-19, Influenza virus, pandemic, Spanish flu, Third waveReferences :
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