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The Trump administration's vaccine advisers are bringing up an old flu-shot debate: Whether it's time to wipe out the last ...
If skeletons without lesions (healthy people) were just as common among the dead as skeletons with lesions (frail people), that would support the notion that the 1918 flu was just as deadly to healthy ...
The 1918 pandemic mistake that changed medicine forever A misunderstanding about the microbe that actually causes the flu created a ripple effect that changed the future of U.S. drug development ...
The influenza pandemic that killed 675,000 Americans a century ago is often referred to as the "forgotten flu." Also forgotten: lessons it might have taught us for how to deal with the cost, in ...
As the coronavirus pandemic creeps into its third year, and the death toll in the United States reaches 900,000, the 1918 influenza pandemic can offer some insight into how this chapter of history ...
As the coronavirus pandemic creeps into its third year, the 1918 influenza pandemic can offer some insight into how this chapter of history might draw to a close.
Primetta Giacopini, a 105-year-old woman who's survived the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed 50 million people globally, has died of COVID-19.
Woman who survived 1918 flu, World War II succumbs to COVID At age 105, Primetta Giacopini’s life ended the way it began — in a pandemic ...
Yet, Spanish Flu, or 1918 H1N1 as it is officially known, isn't "dead." However, because of the supply of antivirals and the flu vaccine, the Spanish Flu is unlikely to be the cause of another ...
The U.S.’ known death toll from COVID-19 will surpass the number of dead from the Spanish Flu within the next day or two, according to the side-by-side numbers – though a direct compari… ...
News / Health / Health Wire What the 1918 flu can teach us about COVID and ‘returning to normal’ Free COVID-19’s arc of brutal consequences will stretch far into the future.