Lockdowns, second waves and burn outs. Spanish flu's clues about how coronavirus might play out in Australia
- Written by Jeff Kildea, Adjunct Professor Irish Studies, UNSW
National Museum of Australia In a remarkable coincidence, the first media reports about Spanish flu and COVID-19 in Australia both occurred on January 25 – exactly 101 years apart.
This is not the only similarity between the two pandemics.
Although history does not repeat, it rhymes. The story of how Australia - and particular the NSW...
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