Need 600 words in 6 hours/ Discussion Question

Please read these brief articles on the 1918 influenza, and imagine for a moment that we did not have the medical technologies (vaccines, ventilators, IV Medications) that we have today and answer these questions:

1. Would we see many more deaths without our medical advancements, and if so, why?
2. What mistakes where made in 1918 that we repeated during this pandemic here in America?

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/influenza-letter/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-we-can-learn-1918-influenza-diaries-180974614/