“One reason for this is definitely the unprecedented measures that have been taken in the fight against Corona“says the historian Malte Thießen, who deals with the history of health, health care and vaccination, among other things.”But there are two other factors that ensure that this pandemic will be remembered more than, for example, the Spanish or Hong Kong flu.“
Corona better documented than Spanish flu
In contrast to these two past pandemics, in which around 400,000 people (Spanish flu, 1918-1920) and 50,000 people (Hong Kong flu, 1969/70) died in Germany, the corona crisis (since 2020, around 73,000 deaths so far in Connection with Covid-19) better documented.
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