'As the southern hemisphere prepares for its winter season, Dr Anthony Fauci says "it will be inevitable" for the US to prepare for a second outbreak: "Be prepared for another cycle." '
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'Be prepared for another cycle': Tense Dr Fauci warns coronavirus will come back as Trump says 'it's time' to restart economy, March 26, 2020
'The horrific scale of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic is hard to fathom. The virus infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims— that’s more than all of the soldiers and civilians killed during World War I combined.
While the global pandemic lasted for two years, the vast majority of deaths were packed into three especially cruel months in the fall of 1918. Historians now believe that the fatal severity of the Spanish flu’s “second wave” was caused by a mutated virus..'
- The History Channel,
Why the Second Wave of the 1918 Spanish Flu Was So Deadly, March 2020
'First, this is not influenza (the “flu”). It’s actually a novel variant of SARS. The proper name of this virus is SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), and the associated disease is called COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019). As the name implies, SARS-CoV-2 can, in its severe cases, produce acute inflammation of the respiratory system, which is the typical cause of fatalities.'
- John P. Hussman, Ph.D. (
Source, March 26, 2020)
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