Covid 19 and Sweating Sickness - Are they the same thing?

In this special video, Claire Ridgway, author of "Sweating Sickness in a Nutshell", compares Covid-19, Coronavirus, which is causing havoc here in 2020, to the Sweating Sickness epidemics in England in the 16th century.

Are Covid-19 and Sweating Sickness similar? Are they the same illness?

Find out more in this talk.

You can find out even more about Sweating Sickness in Claire's video from 2014 - - or in Claire's book "Sweating Sickness in a Nutshell".

For more information on Coronavirus, please see the World Health Organisation's website at

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