Coronavirus has historic proportions & potential to be as serious as Spanish Flu: Dr Fauci

As coronavirus continues to spre globally, US top infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci, on Tuesday asserted that coronavirus is a pandemic of 'historic proportions' and has potential to be as dangerous as 1918 Spanish Flu that claimed lives of over 50 million people globally.

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"If you look at magnitude of 1918 pandemic where anywhere from 50 to 75 to 100 million people globally died, that was mor of all pandemics and truly historic. I hope we don't even approach that with this, but it does have makings of, possibility of ... approaching that in seriousness," an international media quoted Fauci as he dressed Georgetown University Global Health Initiative webinar.

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Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, is considered to be deliest in history, it infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide; which comprised about one-third of world's population. As United States continues to be versely affected by contagion,  challenge is w  resurgence of infections in South and Southwestern parts of country. Fauci said California, Florida, Arizona and Texas are states to watch w. He furr informed that young individuals are contracting virus. "y're seeing record numbers of cases, most interestingly, among young individuals," Fauci ded.

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Coronavirus spre so far

vel coronavirus infection which started in China's Wuhan city has w spre across world. So far, over 13 million cases have been reported worldwide and 5,75,000 people have died due to pandemic. As per data updated by worldmeter,  United States has 3,545,077 Coronavirus Cases,139,143 deaths and 1,600,195 patients recovered.

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(With inputs from ANI) (Im AP)