As he noted in an interview with Radio Sputnik, both diseases spread in waves during certain seasons.
“The Spanish flu pandemic a century ago had three waves: spring, then autumn-winter, and after summer there was again autumn-winter-spring.
The most difficult was the second wave, which is autumn-winter.
Now nothing has changed: the collective immunity at the beginning of the infection was at zero, so the wave went, as it should have gone, "- said the immunologist.
According to the physician, there is a recipe for ending the epidemic, but it is associated with strict restrictions.
He noted that the disease will stop spreading if “all people are locked up in their apartments at the same time so that no one goes anywhere”.
Earlier, the chief infectious disease specialist of the Russian Ministry of Health, Professor Vladimir Chulanov, spoke about the general features of the coronavirus and the Spanish flu.