Analysis Photo: Fear of COVID-19 has spread around the world. (Reuters: Gonzalo Fuentes) It was a sight I won’t easily forget. As a medical reporter, I’m used to being in hospitals and even in intensive care units. It’s part of my job. But seeing pregnant women hooked up to life support, desperately trying to fight off the effects of s wine flu in the grip of the 2009 pandemic , was confronting. This disease affected people who don’t often get the flu, afflicting young adults whose previously healthy lungs became white and cloudy with pneumonia. While most recovered, many did not. By the end of 2009, more than 37,000 Australians had been diagnosed with swine flu. More than 190 people were dead. Worldwide, the US Centres for Disease Control estimates swine flu killed as many as 575,000 people. Eighty per cent of them were under 65. The facts Let’s […]