What Made It So Deadly: While the 2018 flu season is not yet pandemic, it's still packing quite a punch. For example, 9.7 percent of deaths that occurred during the second week of January were listed as being related to pneumonia or influenza. This puts it above the epidemic level, and...
The trend shows deaths from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic over two years. It strikes in three sudden spiking waves that quickly recede within 2-3 months. The Spanish Flu had a short mortality period (killed within 2-4 weeks), began to show symptoms within days, and had high infectivity. ...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
On March 20, there were 250,000 global cases and over 10,000 deaths. Cases had tripled, deaths had almost quintupled. Italy had overtaken China in most fatalities, from zero a month earlier. The US had emerged “on the forefront”. It now had 10,400 cases and 150 deaths. Yes, that...
According to experts, it is important to recall, when comparing data from the two pandemics, that the numbers of deaths stemming from the 1918 pandemic are just estimates. In fact, according to Dr. Graham Mooney, assistant professor of the history of medicine at the Johns Hopkins Univers...
The advantage to what we are doing now is that the mortality is much reduced. COVID-19 deaths in hot spots like New York City are at 22 percent above normal mortality rates, and that's shockingly high. But these numbers are a long way away from the experiences of the past. For instan...
Newsweek was already calling the endeavor the “swine flu snafu” when a mysterious string of deaths stoked fears that the outbreak had already begun. Public Confidence in the Vaccine Waned The National Archives President Gerald Ford receiving the swine flu vaccine from his White House physician, ...
the place that first reported a virus were often not its origin. For example, HIV infection was first reported by the US, yet it might also be possible that the virus did not originally come from the US. And more and more evidence proves that the Spanish Flu did not originate from Spain...
Stock markets of both regions did not react significantly in the short term to the notification of the first cases of COVID; however, a significant negative reaction was registered with the announcement of the first deaths (Heyden and Heyden, 2021). During the first wave of COVID-19, the ...
“We assume that the virus will infect around 50% of the world population; 20% of the cases will be severe, and 1-3% will result in deaths,” analysts from the Economist Intelligence Unit said in a note. As a result of the pandemic, the EIU predicted global growth would stand at just...