Spanish Flu expert Peter Hobbins has drawn parallels between Australia's condition during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1919 and the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
The outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1919 led to the death of about 15,000 Australians with at least a quarter of the country’s population contracting the disease.
Dr Hobbins told Sky News the impact of the 1919 outbreak was “so much more dramatic” than that of 2020, but there were some “striking similarities” between the two years, including the community willingness to cooperate.
He said Australians after 1919 “became a bit more insular as well through the 1920s, they withdrew from the world and looked a little more inwards, so I guess one of the questions we’re going to be facing after 2020 is are we going to be doing the same thing.”
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