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- Analysis of population density thresholds in the influenza pandemic of 1918 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641965/ 2 comments
- Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918' https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797 3 comments politics
- Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918' https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797 3 comments politics
- Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918' https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797?__twitter_impression=true 5 comments politics
- Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918' https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797 6 comments politics
- Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918' https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797 12 comments politics
- The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: one hundred years of progress. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/piis2213-2600(18)30272-8/fulltext#.wzv-jcs8zxq.reddit 3 comments science
- Before Trump’s inauguration, There Was A Transition Exercise Briefing For: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918’ https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797 5 comments politics
- Baseball players wearing masks that they thought would keep them from getting the flu during the influenza pandemic of 1918 [1344 x 1016] https://www.reddit.com/r/historyporn/comments/k7x7h9/baseball_players_wearing_masks_that_they_thought/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf 529 comments sports
- The Mask Slackers of 1918 | As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html 4 comments politics
- The Spanish flu (1918-20): The global impact of the largest influenza pandemic in history https://ourworldindata.org/spanish-flu-largest-influenza-pandemic-in-history 13 comments science
- We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918 (2010) Survivors of the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed 50 million people from 1918 to 1920 describe their experiences [00:56:29] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfbk1Sg8JlE 15 comments documentaries
- New influenza vaccine shows signs of protection against more than a dozen swine flu strains, including those responsible for pandemics in 2009 and 1918. Not only did it outperform current commercial vaccines, but it strengthens promise of a universal flu vaccine for humans. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-universal-flu-vaccine-study-suggests-protection-against-multiple-strains-perhaps-for-years-may-be-possible/ar-bb1efp7w 4 comments science
- The relative increase of excess deaths during early COVID-19 period was substantially greater than during the peak of the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic, finds a new study comparing estimated excess deaths in New York City during the COVID-19 and 1918 influenza pandemics. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2769236 4 comments science
- The most important lesson of the 1918 influenza pandemic: Tell the damn truth | “The government lied. They lied about everything”: a historian on what went wrong in 1918. https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2020/3/20/21184887/coronavirus-covid-19-spanish-flu-pandemic-john-barry 497 comments politics
- The 1918 influenza pandemic killed 3-5% of the world's population. Scientists discover the genetic material of that strain is hiding in 8 circulating strains of avian flu http://www.neomatica.com/2014/07/05/genetic-material-deadly-1918-influenza-present-circulating-strains-now/ 274 comments science
- Study Finds Many Spanish Flu Deaths Actually Caused By Aspirin Overdoses: Salicylates [Aspirin] and Pandemic Influenza Mortality, 1918–1919 Pharmacology, Pathology, and Historic Evidence http://m.cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/9/1405.full 7 comments history
- New influenza vaccine shows signs of protection against dozen-plus flu strains in mice and pigs, including swine flu strains which drove pandemics in 2009 and 1918, outperforming current commercial vaccines, and bolsters promise of a universal flu vaccine for humans. https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/vaccine-shows-signs-of-protection-against-dozen-plus-flu-strains/ 397 comments science
- Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918’ In a tabletop exercise days before an untested new president took power, officials briefed the incoming administration on a scenario remarkably like the one he faces now. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797 4 comments politics
- 102 yrs before COVID-19, India braved The Bombay Fever pandemic that killed over 10 million. | The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 had claimed somewhere between 50 and 100 million lives worldwide, with India accounting for almost a fifth of the global death toll. https://theprint.in/india/102-yrs-before-covid-19-india-braved-the-bombay-fever-pandemic-that-killed-over-10-mn/379652/ 23 comments india
- Century after pandemic, science takes its best shot at flu - A century after one of history’s most catastrophic disease outbreaks, scientists are rethinking how to guard against another super-flu like the 1918 influenza that killed tens of millions as it swept the globe. https://www.apnews.com/f059c92c0ec946dc8957e2ad9c0affc2/century-after-pandemic,-science-takes-its-best-shot-at-flu 8 comments worldnews
- Seasonal Flu May Be Descended From the 1918 Pandemic Strain: A new study characterized samples of the influenza virus strain that caused the "Spanish Flu" in 1918, revealing information about the pandemic's spread and highlighting a link between that viral strain and modern-day yearly seasonal flu. https://www.technologynetworks.com/immunology/news/seasonal-flu-may-be-descended-from-the-1918-flu-pandemic-virus-361445 6 comments science
- Public health interventions (such as closing businesses) to contain spread of the flu during the 1918 influenza pandemic successfully reduced mortality at little economic cost. The economic costs were likely low because the interventions protected the labor force in the long run. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/abs/what-happened-to-the-us-economy-during-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-a-view-through-highfrequency-data/C94B9A150CC0BD5E2E968CBCA7CED813 34 comments science