So you beautiful bastards. Hope you've been a fantastic Friday. Welcome back to the Philip

DeFranco show. And for today's Friday's show, we're going to do something a little bit different.

But before we do, I want to quickly thank the sponsors of our show during these uncertain times as well,

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So I'm a big believer, and one of the best ways to understand the current situation, the gravity of it,

and what could happen in the future, is to take a look back.

So that's why today we're gonna look at the history of major outbreaks in the United States,

because over the last century, we've seen over a handful of them. From the Spanish flu to the Asian flu, the Hong Kong flu, swine flu, SARS, MERS and now COVID-19,

which by the way, those last three fall into the coronavirus family. So this isn't our

first outbreak and unfortunately it will not be our last. Outbreaks are actually

pretty constant. We've seen a lot of them, but not every outbreak reaches pandemic levels like COVID-19 has. When we say pandemic, it refers to an illness that has spread over several countries or continents,

usually affecting a large geographic area and tons of people.

Right, and so to start things off, a little over 100 years ago, we saw the first pandemic of the 20th century, the Spanish flu.

Right, and recently we've seen a lot of people comparing COVID-19 to the Spanish flu,

but it is important to note there are major differences. Now, one of the big ones is that the Spanish flu involves the H1N1

influenza virus, whereas COVID-19 is a strain of the coronavirus, meaning that it is not the flu.

Also, just a quick note here, COVID-19 is the name of this specific disease and the name of

the virus is SARS-CoV-2. But to keep it simple, we're sticking to COVID in all cases because that's what everyone knows it as.

That said, Spanish flu.

In the United States, it was first identified

in military personnel in Fort Riley, Kansas,

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