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Bad as COVID has been, there's no pandemic in history that's come close to the devastation of plague - at least in what's called the second plague pandemic, better known as the Black Death. It took off in the mid 14th century and within a few years had killed maybe 25 or 30% or Europe's population and then came in waves for four hundred years. Plague is an infection of rodents which jumps to other animals and humans and kills from pneumonia and septicaemia. Like all pandemics, plague was exquisitely tuned to environmental changes, international politics, warfare, disadvantage and the way humans lived and there's a lot that we can learn from it in the time of COVID.
