Coronavirus The Ultimate Deliverance from a Pandemic

Human history is marked by epidemic diseases. They have always followed movements linked to trade or wars. These epidemics defined as plagues before modern times could be caused by different diseases (typhoid smallpox bubonic or pulmonary plague yellow fever). Recent acceleration in travel along with the development of air travel has increased the speed of spread of new epidemics. However progress in detecting cases and the speed with which treatments have been implemented most often have made it possible to limit their health consequences. From the plagues of Antiquity to the current Covid-19 pandemic including the Black Death and the Spanish flu the great past epidemics are reviewed as well as the number of their victims.At a time when the outcome of the global Covid-19 pandemic seems uncertain we have gone back in time to observe what the examples of the past teach us thus understanding how the epidemics of the past and beyond ended. make a resemblance with our current health situation to learn more about how the coronavirus epidemic could end.Human history is marked by epidemic diseases. They have always followed movements linked to trade or wars. These epidemics defined as plagues before modern times could be caused by different diseases (typhoid smallpox bubonic or pulmonary plague yellow fever). Recent acceleration in travel along with the development of air travel has increased the speed of spread of new epidemics. However progress in detecting cases and the speed with which treatments have been implemented most often have made it possible to limit their health consequences. From the plagues of Antiquity to the current Covid-19 pandemic including the Black Death and the Spanish flu the great past epidemics are reviewed as well as the number of their victims.At a time when the outcome of the global Covid-19 pandemic seems uncertain we have gone back in time to observe what the examples of the past teach us thus understanding how the epidemics of the past and beyond ended. make a resemblance with our current health situation to learn more about how the coronavirus epidemic could end.