Not the first time
The public health predicament in which we currently find ourselves seems in some ways like a rerun of what happened 102 years ago with the Spanish flu. The Oregon Historical Society has a fascinating blog post up with all sorts of images from Portland during that time.
Here, for example, is the curve they struggled to flatten:
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