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Spanish flu happened 10 yrs before penicillin, and the main treatment was tons of aspirin (some deaths were actually aspirin overdose). Public sanitation was also far worse, leading to greater spread. It's profoundly incompetent of them to say this will be at all similar.
Antibiotics would have helped with secondary bacterial infections, but viral illness remains a significant weakness in modern medical care. "Clearly we can treat and contain this now" is a blind take.
Secondary bacterial infections caused the vast majority of deaths from Spanish Flu (https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/bacterial-pneumonia-caused-most-deaths-1918-influenza-pandemic …). We've had over a *century* of health research since, including novel antivirals (like Gilead's remdesivir) that are promising enough to see use in this outbreak.
Secondary bacterial infections are not causing the deaths that are occuring with the illness in front of us *now.* Clearly the situation would be much, much worse if we didn't have antibiotics or antivirals. It'll be very bad if we see shortages.
Sanitation is on point for the West, countries like India and Mexico tho have sanitation that is in some cases worse than the US in 1918
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