Asian pandemics-a pattern emerges

It is unfathomable that, amidst all the interminable media commentary on Covid-19, little or no mention has been made of the two global pandemics of 1957/59 and 1968/70.  The “Asian flu” of 1957/59 and the “Hong Kong flu” of 1968/70 both bore striking similarities to today’s pandemic. Indeed, there are such striking similarities between the two that we thought it worthy of comment.