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A Comparative Study between Spanish Flu and COVID -19 (A Statistical Review)


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1 Department of Statistics, Kokrajhar Govt. College, Bodoland University & Research Scholar of Cotton University, Panbazar, Guwahati, Assam, India
2 Department of Statistics, Cotton University, Panbazar, Guwahati, Assam, India
     

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The health of all groups of people especially children and older people were mainly affected by Spanish flu of 1918 and by present pandemic due to COVID-19. Both the diseases are found to be spreading in close contact of people. The infected people of these diseases show some common symptoms like fever, cough, shortness of breath etc. People did used masks and maintained physical distancing and quarantine themselves to curb the effect of the flu. People during this present pandemic are also trying to follow these methods to deal with the deadly situation of COVID-19. In this paper, a statistical study is carried out on the basis of secondary data to compare both the diseases and their impact on health of the people then and now.

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Pandemic, Spanish Flu, Corona virus, COVID 19.
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Authors

Smritimayee Sarma
Department of Statistics, Kokrajhar Govt. College, Bodoland University & Research Scholar of Cotton University, Panbazar, Guwahati, Assam, India
Bandana Sharma
Department of Statistics, Cotton University, Panbazar, Guwahati, Assam, India

Abstract


The health of all groups of people especially children and older people were mainly affected by Spanish flu of 1918 and by present pandemic due to COVID-19. Both the diseases are found to be spreading in close contact of people. The infected people of these diseases show some common symptoms like fever, cough, shortness of breath etc. People did used masks and maintained physical distancing and quarantine themselves to curb the effect of the flu. People during this present pandemic are also trying to follow these methods to deal with the deadly situation of COVID-19. In this paper, a statistical study is carried out on the basis of secondary data to compare both the diseases and their impact on health of the people then and now.

Keywords


Pandemic, Spanish Flu, Corona virus, COVID 19.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24906/isc%2F2020%2Fv34%2Fi5%2F206998