#Influenza

The Surrealist Side of the Street

coolgrey

The Bay Area during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic...Open-air police court being held in Portsmouth Square, San Francisco. To prevent crowding indoors, judges held outdoor court sessions The SF Board

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P_Wee

Educating the panicked...According to data from the best-studied countries and regions, the lethality of Covid19 is on average about 0.2%, which is in the range of a severe influenza (flu)

Branko Milanovic

BrankoMilan

The new virus is a great confirmation of @nntaleb distinction btw phenomena where we can use the knowledge derived from Mediocristan and the phenomena that belong to Extremistan and where

Lalo Dagach

LaloDagach

~ THREAD ON PLAGUES & PANDEMICS FROM CHINA The recent outbreak of #coronavirus (or SARS-CoV-2) originating in China is nothing new. Many of the great plagues and pandemics that

Beth Hoffman, MPH

HoffmanBethL

The negatives of #socialdistancing are very real and serious. These include unemployment, financial hardship, #loneliness, and social isolation. But are there some #upsides that we could continue even once we

Yoruba History - by NNP

YorubaHistory

The Influenza Global Pandemic of 1918-1919. Á ò rí’rú eléyì rí, a fií dé rù b’omo ni; unprecedented is just a word, there’s really nothing new under the sun! In

Andrew Oxford

andrewboxford

When Phoenix reopened schools and movie theaters after a bad wave of influenza cases in late 1918, the city was hit by a second wave in early 1919The newspaper in

robert rosencrans

rfrosencrans

Much rhetoric around obesity as a critical pre-existing condition for Covid-19. A key lesson from H1N1 epidemic: meta analyses (n=25,189) showed an odds ratio of 1.8 for fatality amongst obese

𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐄𝐑, 𝐌𝐃

aalkermd

#Plandemic RebuttalI spent all morning explaining to family members the many inaccuracies of this video. Since I was forced to watch it repeatedly to organize the information, I will share

Marc Daalder

marcdaalder

A common canard in NZ, spread by talk show hosts, misguided academics and conspiracy theorist political candidates, is that the @WHO revised down its estimate of the death rate of

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

Covid deaths are counted in a fundamentally different and more liberal fashion than flu deaths. Using excess deaths over Spring 2020 provides a more reasonable measure for Covid deaths, but

Khensu The Reminder

KNeferhetep

Many institutions REQUIRE people to get influenza vaccines EVERY YEAR because the vaccine from the previous year "doesnt work anymore." So how often do you think they will REQUIRE COVID-19

Emily Deans MD 👻

evolutionarypsy

Doctors in 1918 tried high dose aspirin, quinine, arsenic, camphor oil, digitalis, strychnine, Epsom salts and castor oil, and when none of these helped, fell back on bloodletting. They had

Wealth Director

wealth_director

𝟓 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐲 @BillGates =THREAD= 1. The Choice, by Dr. Edith Eva Eger“Time doesn’t heal. It’s what you do with time. Healing is po

Kristen K. Coleman

drkristenkc

In October 2008, researchers did a study like this in Ontario for seasonal influenza and literally stopped the study because of the 2009 influenza pandemic. Last year, the same PI

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

SEPT. 14 - Canada/Ontario/Québec daily update#COVID19Ontario #covid19canada #covid19quebec 1 death reported in all of Canada (population: 37,971,020).85,216 additional tests to confirm 518 additional cases (0.6%).1.9 active cases per 10,00