COVID-19: No mask is dangerous! : 100 years ago, common sense in Japan
COVID-19:
100 years ago Spanish cold: (1918-20)
The Spanish flu is considered the worst pandemic of the 20th century (a pandemic of infectious diseases).
100 years ago with a Spanish cold
20 to 40 million people are dead in the world,
Even in Japan, around 400,000 people died.
Ministry of Home Affairs at the time: poster
searched the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and the Ministry of Interior materials at that time.
Measures to prevent infection and social upset are similar to the current COVID-19, like a copy.
What can we learn from the tragedy of a century ago?
Do not approach the patient
Infected from splashes such as cough
Now is Spanish cold culmination
(October 25, 1918)
Asahi Shimbun Digital
https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/www.asahi.com/amp/articles/ASN4S4CYPN4FUTIL01M.html
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