The Spanish Flu of 1918: Lessons for the Coronavirus

Flu victims receiving treatment in an emergency hospital at Camp Funstan, Kansas, 1918.

There are now more than 77,000 reported cases of coronavirus worldwide and 35 of them are in the U.S. 2,250 people across the globe, mostly Chinese, have died. These numbers are rising by the hour.

The number of coronavirus victims in South Korea has spiked in the la…