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Might coronavirus pandemic last less than two years? WHO is hopeful

An influenza patient is treated at Naval Hospital in New Orleans in a 1918 photo. About 50 million people died in the 1918 pandemic, the worst in modern history. [Reuters] 

The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years.

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