#Influenza

Matt T. Michigan 9-4 Lions 3-12-1

michiganlions

This thread begins earlier, but I'm quoting this one because it's the most critical tweet in ithttps://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1248410358361944066 This is the last tweet in an interesting thread comparing the 2020 coronavirus

Matt Britton

ThunderingEIk

In the fall of 1918, as President Woodrow Wilson scrambled to end World War I, the Spanish flu slithered its way through D.C., unsettling daily life in the same ways

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I should be qualified to comment on the covid-19 pandemic. I'm a computational/system biologist working on infectious diseases and have spent five years in a world class 'pandemic response modelling'

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Let us be clear on ten reasons why the Barrington group letter to...er... the Daily Express is profoundly wrong.https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1427568/Lockdown-latest-face-masks-social-distancing-scientists 1. They state confid

Kyle Lamppa

Lamppa_

THREAD: If you notice an uptick in COVID cases to the Virginia, MN area, you can blame me. My wife and I are already in the totals, but our four

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Flu pandemics recur reliably but unpredictably every decade or so, and their extent and intensity varies. With COVID19, we may be in midst of a once-every-50-years event, perhaps similar to

Ben Paviour

BPaves

THREAD: African Americans account for 16 out 18 people who’ve died from COVID-19 in Richmond as of Monday. But health disparities here are nothing new.https://vpm.org/news/articles/13313/in-1918-pandemic-black-richmond-faced-new-virus-and

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DrOlufunmilayo

Let me tell you a little story:100 years ago, in 1918-1919, there was a pandemic too.It was called Spanish Flu Pandemic.500 million people (1/3 of the world) got infected and

Chad Hayes, MD 🧟‍♀️💀😈👻

chadhayesmd

her name was maggie. (her name wasn't maggie.) she'd been in the hospital for over a week, first with influenza, then pneumonia, then a lung abscess. her mom had been

Calvin Starnes

CalvinStarnesOG

So, I'm sure at some point you've heard some version of "the yearly flu is more deadly that the coronavirus."I knew this couldn't be right since a lot of those

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) For the 'it is just the flu' crowed. Without drastic countermeasures, deaths from seasonal influenza in the US between 2010 and 2019 varied between 12,000 and 61,000. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html SARS-CoV-2

Ed Elliott

Ed1Elliott

1/ I decided to look back at some of the UK's National Security Strategy documents from recent years to see if anything stood out about how the a pandemic such

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

Stop comparing covid-19 to the Spanish Flu.For more perspective on how they are different, let's look at our own history.https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/1918-spanish-flu-in-canada "In 1918–19, [Spanish Flu] kill

Jordan Schachtel

JordanSchachtel

1) Most COVID-19 cases are not COVID-19 cases (PCR fraud)2) Most COVID-19 deaths are not COVID-19 deaths3) Many "hospitalized w COVID-19" come into the hospital with unrelated conditions.We have to

Dr Fauci Updates Brazil 🧠

deaddilf69

The year 2037“Influenza, come inside you have to finish your college applications if you don’t get accepted into any schools here I’m sending you back to live on earth with

ICU night nurse

eyeseeyouarein

So there’s no misunderstanding, a thread.There are STILL massive shortages of PPE in Florida. Allow me tell you how things are at one hospital where I see Hospice consults and