Spanish flu

Ljubljana – Slovenia recorded an excess mortality rate of 15% last year, when the Covid-19 epidemic was in full swing, the Statistics Office said on Monday. The worst month of 2021 was November, when 49% more people died than the average for the same period in 2015-2019.

COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more Americans since 2020 than the Spanish flu in 1918-19, according to data from the American Johns Hopkins University, world agencies reported, informs BTA.

He explained to Novosti that the possibility of a "collision" between coronavirus and the seasonal flu awaits us.
According to him, the authorities cannot predict with certainty what the situation with the flu virus will be like this year, and he reminded that last year's season was mild.

The warning that a third wave of the coronavirus is coming to our country is not intended to scare someone, but to warn that the trend for further spread of the disease is on the rise, told BNT National Health Inspector Assoc.Prof. Angel Kunchev.

"Don't you love being alive?" "Don't you love weather and the colors... and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" asks one of the characters in Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," a story on surviving the 1918 flu pandemic.

European countries must prepare for a deadly second wave of coronavirus infections as the pandemic is not over, said a top World Health Organization official in Europe. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Telegraph, Dr.

On the one hand, we have the enormous strides made in the fields of medicine and technology; on the other, we have mankind's enduring proclivity for procrastination when faced with the relentlessness of nature. 

The investigation is being sought because the government has failed to fully explain the differences in the death toll, the low number of tests and the lack of equipment in hospitals.

We are experiencing what experts agree is the biggest pandemic since the 1918 Spanish flu and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. It's an almost impossible combination, especially if you've just emerged from the biggest recession since World War II.

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