#107 - John Barry: 1918 Spanish flu pandemic—historical account, parallels to today, and lessons

#107 - John Barry: 1918 Spanish flu pandemic—...

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Lessons from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic
Front Burner

The influenza outbreak of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in recent history, killing an estimated 50 million to 100 million people aroundthe world. And it bears some striking similarities to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, Laura Spinney, science journalist and author of Pale Rider: ...  عرض المزيد

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The Deadliest Pandemic in Modern History
HISTORY This Week

April 5, 1918. The first mention of a new influenza outbreak in Kansas appears in a public health report. That strain, later called the Spanish Flu, would go on to kill at least 50 million people worldwide. In a time before widespread global travel, how did this disease spread so ...  عرض المزيد

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Laura Spinney, “Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World” (PublicAffairs, 2017)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth–from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 a ...  عرض المزيد

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History's Lessons for Our Post-Virus Future
Prognosis: Misconception

As soon as the Coronavirus became a pandemic, people began making parallels to the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, and reaching even further back to the black death of the middle ages. It makes sense--past pandemics may be our only reference point for whole populations being strick ...  عرض المزيد

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