COVID-19 & THE PLAGUE THAT HIT ATHENS

I did some research on the plague that hit Athens and the Coronavirus and this is what I found. The plague of Athens came in through their port which is by water. I'm pretty sure that most of the states here that first got it are by the coasts. A difference between the two is that the Athen's Plague was an epidemic and COVID-19 is a pandemic. Some of the symptoms are similar as well. For example, a symptom of Coronavirus is a fever. The Athen’s Plague has a symptom of high fever as well. I found that Coronavirus has killed more people than the Athen’s Plague. An estimated 100,000 people died in Athens from the plague. That was about 25% of the population of Athens. COVID-19 has already killed around 2.8 million people around the world. Our current disease is already surpassing the fatality rate of the Athen's plague from thousands of years ago. Another difference between the two is that when someone catches the Coronavirus they don't always know they have it, but when someone caught the disease in Athens they always got the symptoms and probably felt like they wanted to die. There' a lot more differences than similarities between the two diseases. I feel like this "plague" is worse than the one in Athens. Anyways, that's all for today.