Coronavirus The Ultimate Deliverance from a Pandemic

The history of mankind is punctuated by epidemic diseases. They have always followed the movements, linked to trade or wars. These epidemics, defined as plagues before modern times, could be caused by different agents (typhoid, smallpox, bubonic or pulmonary plague, yellow fever). The recent acceleration of travel, with the development of air travel, increased the speed of spread of new epidemics. However, progress in the detection of cases and the rapid implementation of treatments usually made it possible to limit their health consequences. From the plagues of antiquity to the current Covid-19 pandemic, via the Black Death and the Spanish flu, the great epidemics of the past are analysed, 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 look at what the examples of the past teach us, so as to understand how the epidemics of the past ended, and then to draw a resemblance with our current health situation.