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Dr. Tom Frieden
DrTomFrieden
1/3 The US played a central role creating WHO in 1948 and supporting it since. Without WHO, the world would not have eradicated smallpox, MDRTB would have spread much more
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Adam Kucharski
AdamJKucharski
The response to the 1918 pandemic had some remarkably familiar features, as described in this 2010 article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862334/#__ffn_sectitle). For example, there was debate about the effectiveness of mask
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The New York Times
nytimes
Breaking News: The coronavirus has killed more than one million people worldwide since it emerged, more than influenza, malaria, cholera and measles, combined.The agonizing toll, compiled from official counts, far
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Kip Ludwig
KipLudwig
As part of COVID-19 discussion, I’ve heard a lot of people voice skepticism about flu shots. I think there is a misunderstanding about the #FluShot. #covid #Trump Simply put: You
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John Schmalzbauer
OzarksWatcher
Last weekend I did some genealogical digging motivated by our current crisis. Since childhood, I'd heard that my great-grandmother's sister died in the flu epidemic of 1918. A few weeks
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Atila Iamarino
oatila
Fui descobrir hoje que tinham questionado quando disse que dependendo do tipo de vacina que desenvolvermos pra COVID, o pulmão das pessoas pode não ser "completamente protegido". Segue um pequeno
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Justin Hart
justin_hart
1/ It's time for some more self-reflection. The REAL cause for concern are not the deaths from #COVID19 or cases but the hospitalizations and the extremely rare and unique damage
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Your racist Facebook uncle may have sent you a link to a trailer for "Plandemic," a conspiracy movie that stars a disgraced virologist called Judy Mikovits who makes a string
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Anosognosiogenesis
pookleblinky
Today's covid denialists are tomorrow's openly eugenicist "these disabled people are a drain on society"Literally. 13 years after the Spanish flu, the very first people the nazis targeted were disabled
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Gummi Bear
gummibear737
Deep-Dive: Pandemic Planning - Then, NowOur “Public Health Experts” are making recommendations on:-Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs)-Risk-benefit in public health-Ethical issuesWhich break with all previous plans prepared by publi
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sara.art
saraart4
etudes sur les masqueshttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/ ucune des études examinées n'a montré un bénéfice du port d'un masque, que ce soit chez les travailleurs de la santé ou les membres de la
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doc saab
shamskii5
I always used to wonder if winter was the cause of colds and getting sick. For a long time, I remember my mom always telling me to bundle up before
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Zinnia, adult demon female
ZJemptv
The pandemic is even more out of control than it was in March and April, so now we're doing even less to address it. What could go wrong? Everything is
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Glenn Ray
GlennLRay
In five days (September 20), the number of deaths in the US due to COVID-19 will exceed 201,157. Why is this significant? (1/9) As of today (September 15), the number
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Trevor Bedford
trvrb
A thread on #SARSCoV2 mutations and what they might mean for the #COVID19 vaccination and immunity, in which I predict it will take the virus a few years to mutate
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Rochelle, at home
Rochelle
I’ve been going through newspaper archives from Washington state in 1918 to see how they talked about influenza then. It’s quite interesting! This is from the Lynden Tribune, October 31,
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