The New York Times reported on its front page that the “virus that caused the greatest world epidemic of influenza in modern history—the pandemic of 1918-19—may have returned.” With the swine flu expected to resurface later that fall, federal officials feared an even deadlier pandemic than...
When Aldous Huxley turned the adage “blood is thicker than water” on its head there was no Earth Day. No COVID-19. No economy stuck in idle at the brink of the cliff. No orders or guidelines to stay home and wash your hands. But he had been the flu pandemic of 1918. Makeshift ...
"Ever since the great flu pandemic of 1918, it has been a mystery where thatviruscame from and why it was so severe, and in particular, why it killedyoung adultsin the prime of life," said Worobey, a professor in the UA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. "It has been a...
We are arguably as vulnerable—or more vulnerable—to another pandemic as we were in 1918. Today top public health experts routinely rank influenza as potentially the most dangerous “emerging” health threat we face. Earlier this year, upon leaving his post as head of the Centers for Disease ...
VII. The War and the Influenza Pandemic Even as war raged on the Western Front, a new deadly threat loomed: influenza. In the spring of 1918, a strain of the flu virus appeared in the farm country of Haskell County, Kansas, and hit nearby Camp Funston, one of the largest army trainin...
Third, the COVID-19 pandemic was not the only source of systematic risk to the US financial markets. Global financial markets also have been hit severely by oil price fall. Two months after the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan city, the oil price triggered a spectacular fall by ...
“Back in January Joe Biden wrote an Op-Ed that the President was not prepared for this coming pandemic, and things were going to get worse.And he said ‘Let your doctors talk. Let your scientists talk. Follow their lead.’ “…And it’s been one scam idea after another, that people...
In 1918, a flu virus spread around the world in a matter of months and killed an estimated 50 million people before fizzling out in 1919. The few surviving photographs of the 1918-19 pandemic primarily feature rows of beds in makeshift hospitals and the masked faces of doctors, nurses, barb...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also “coincidentally” bought $55 million worth of shares in BioNTech in September 2019, just before the alleged Covid-19 pandemic struck. The MHRA received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2017 to the tune of £980,000 for a “...
The instability in the global markets, rising unemployment, shortages of so many items that we have come to rely upon, is just the beginning, and the virus has just begun. If it follows the course of the 1918-1919 pandemic, which most scientists believe that it will this is just the fir...