Diabetes deaths fall to lowest levels in years, in early CDC figures Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking and trending news for...
Unfortunately, the flu can be deadly, especially for those in high-risk groups such as older adults and people with chronic health conditions. But in the majority of cases, the flu is not deadly. Understanding how the flu virus is spread is the first step in understanding how to protect yo...
Unfortunately, the flu can be deadly, especially for those in high-risk groups such as older adults and people with chronic health conditions. But in the majority of cases, the flu is not deadly. Understanding how the flu virus is spread is the first step in understanding how to protect yo...
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 was the deadliest pandemic in world history, infecting some 500 million people across the globe—roughly one-third of the population—and causing up to 50 million deaths, including some 675,000 deaths in the United States alone. The disease, caused by a...
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How U.S. city officials responded to the Spanish flu played a critical role in how many residents lived—and died.
Yes, people with compromised health and living in countries with poor health systems will have a high death rate. Even there, the rate is under 2%. In America, there have been no deaths and are unlikely to very many. By comparison, the ordinary flu (did you get your flu vaccination ...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vast differences in approaches to the control and containment of coronavirus across the world and has demonstrated the varied success of such approaches in minimizing the transmission of coronavirus. Whil
during the whole year of 2020. On Twitter, we identified three distinct phases. Each of them is characterized by different regimes of the three psycho-social epidemics. In the refusal phase, users refused to accept reality despite the increasing number of deaths in other countries. In the ...
as of the beginning of May 2020, South Korea has fewer than 250 deaths, while the United States has had - Over 65,000. Given the difference in population size, you would expect the U.S. to have a death rate six-time that of South Korea. Instead, it is over 250 times that of Sou...