https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/covid-19-has-the-potential-to-become-as-severe-as-the-spanish-flu/
Timothy Sly: We can pay tribute to the pandemic planning of the early 2000s, without which we might not have been able to contain the cases of COVID-19 that have arrived in Canada so far. But the odds are stacked against this scenario remaining unblemished.
Spanish Flu Epidemic 1918-19. U.S. school gymnasium converted into an flu ward with patients’ beds are separated by screens and masked health workers. An estimated 25% of the US population contracted the flu and over 500,000 died. (CP/Courtesy of Everett Collection)
Timothy Sly is an epidemiologist and professor at the school of Public Health at Ryerson University. In 2003, he was involved in the management of SARS in Toronto.
We are very likely heading toward the pandemic of the century.
We have been preparing for it since 2003, when SARS revealed both our non-existent, early-warning systems and the inadequacy of our…
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