AvatarThomas Coryflipped into Odds And SodsFlu What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably) smithsonianmag.com - Lila Thulin On the afternoon of November 8, 1918, a celebratory conga line wound through a three-mile-long throng on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. From high-rise …
Human Geography Population change in 2020: The most deaths, fewest births, and fewest new immigrants in a decade usafacts.org - USAFacts The US population grew 0.4% in 2020. This is the lowest annual growth rate since 1918, the year of the Spanish flu pandemic. The US population was an …
Salonflipped into News & PoliticsLiberal View Fake news, conspiracy theories and a deadly global pandemic — and that was in 1918 verified_publisherSalonAs the truism observes, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Almost 600,000 people have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of these deaths were preventable. The Trump regime, through willful...
Los Angeles Timesflipped into CaliforniaCalifornia The pandemic shaped my family for generations. Not COVID — the 1918 flu verified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Mitchell LandsbergA century from now, someone who has not yet been born will come to a haunting realization: Their life was shaped, in ways they may never fully understand, by the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. I know this,...
The Washington Postflipped into OpinionsPandemics The post-pandemic era needs a return to risk-taking creativity, not lingering fear verified_publisherThe Washington Post - By Mitch DanielsThe editors of the Economist are always worth our attention, so they got mine recently when they wrote that the 1918 flu pandemic ushered in “a ferment of forward-looking, risk-taking social, industrial...
Humanity The evolution and future of influenza pandemic preparedness nature.com - Walter N. Harrington The influenza virus is a global threat to human health causing unpredictable yet recurring pandemics, the last four emerging over the course of a …
