How does coronavirus compare to other pandemics?

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Question: How does coronavirus compare to other pandemics?
Position1 of 6›: COVID-19 is the worst pandemic in history

This position holds that Covid-19 is the worst pandemic in history. It argues that no previous outbreak has had so devastating a global effect, in part because modern globalisation and travel spread the disease around the world faster and more widely than ever before.

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Globalisation has spread the disease faster
We are now more connected than ever, and this is reflected in the way that coronavirus has spread.