A grim toll reprised: History is repeating itself 103 years later

History leaped 103 years to repeat itself in grim parallels highlighting similarities between the 1918 global influenza outbreak and COVID-19 onslaught beginning a year ago.  From public officials’ initial efforts to downplay the outbreaks, to the mounting death tolls spurring desperate efforts to fight the pandemics, the influenza epidemic and COVID-19 did not discriminate in…