Little evidence points to COVID-19 fight success

I applaud Samantha Hernandez for her studies at Dominican University, but I disagree with her conclusion that “America is taking precautions to better control the spread of the virus.” (“Spanish flu lessons helpful in COVID efforts,” Dec. 8) She uses the percent of Americans killed in 2020 versus 1918 as her one success metric.

This overlooks secondary pneumonia as the major killer in 1918, 10 years before penicillin was discovered.

Twenty million Americans traveling for Thanksgiving is not “taking precautions.” We all need to step up our game, stay home and stop relying on our overwhelmed health care workers to save us from ourselves.

— Beth Garry, San Jose