“FRESH AIR AND SUNSHINE” GOING BACK TO THE OLD WAYS IN THE FACE OF INFLUENZA PANDEMIC

Abstract

In as much as efforts are being made on development of potent vaccines for the eradication of the influenza currently ravaging the world (COVID-19), it is also pertinent that we look inward and borrow ideas from the past in proffering solutions to the pandemic, and going back the old ways by imploring the natures antibiotics as a measure to remedy the situation is one of the key ideas. Records from the 1918 pandemic showed that a combination of fresh air and sunlight seems to have prevented deaths among patients and infections among health workers. Research has proven that outdoor air is a natural disinfectant, equally sunlight is germicidal, thus both can kill the flu virus and other harmful germs.