The foreseeable economic future of the Nation: The Dow Jones reports a loss of 10%, the lowest in 12 years. Not as bad as the last major drop in 2002 at 16% drop, and nowhere near the crash of 1930 at 52.67% drop. There are currently no antiviral drugs approved by the FDA to treat COVID-19. The nation has now recovered only about a third of the 22 million jobs it lost to the pandemic caused recession, according to the Labor Department. With confirmed COVID-19 cases in a severe uptick across the Sun Belt states, unemployment rates are plateauing or heading back up. In those and some other states restaurants, bars and other retailers that had re-opened are being compelled to close their doors again. Because of the high cost that goes with opening some businesses with perishables and other background costs, many of those will not be able to reopen again. With many others who took government loans to reopen, and not being able to afford another loan, will find it too expensive t...

The Pandemic 2020 begins: The COVID-19 (Corona type, Novel Virus of December 2019) originated in Wuhan province of China with a Chiroptera (Bat) vector. China downplays the possibility that human to human transmission is possible until a couple of weeks after the WHO found out about the outbreak in Wuhan when a person outside of China who had not been to the fish market where it all had started. By this time two travelers had returned from China to the US with the virus. A couple days later Germany develops a test for exposure.    Almost another week later China confirms that Person to person transfer is evident. President Trump is alerted and the CDC develops its own test. Trump tells the US public that it is all under control, without any direction from the CDC or WHO.    China begins drastic quarantine implementation to stop the virus. President Trump reluctantly begins to implement some measures though they are downplayed. By the third week China places 11 M...

The comparison: The  Spanish flu , also known as the  1918 flu pandemic , was an unusually deadly flu pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus strain, which started in pigs. Lasting February 1918 to April 1920, it infected 500 million people–about a third of the world's population at the time–in four successive waves with higher death rates from each. The death toll may have been anything from 17 million to 100 million (depending on source)   The 1918 Flu Pandemic killed more people than World War I, II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined.   . — [fatality rate of 2%] -CDC The Pandemic of 2009 (also an H1N1) was discovered on April 15th. By July 10th there were a million cases worldwide but the CDC, president Obama, and WHO were on it, clinical trials of vaccines were conducted, and in September HHS secretary and CDC Director joined the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) in a news conference to stress the importance ...