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Starting a thread on some timely bedside table reading:
This reminded me of how we are learning that many people are being infected with Coronavirus by people who are not showing symptoms.
While Covid-19 patients have complained about changes to their sense of smell, the Spanish flu apparently attacked vision.
(This passage is from a section in Pale Rider about the flu’s effects in Brazil, which is again hard hit today.)
(This passage is from a section in Pale Rider about the flu’s effects in Brazil, which is again hard hit today.)
And a reminder that the “Spanish” flu wasn’t Spanish at all—the first recorded case was at a military base in Kansas.
Author @lfspinney in 2017 on social distancing and flattening the curve:
This passage about the contrarian decision of NYC’s health commissioner to keep schools open during the Spanish Flu is interesting, given what the Florida governor is saying now about re-opening schools.
Another thing from the 1918 Spanish flu that we’re seeing again today: prescribing anti-malarial drugs that likely do more harm than good.
Some lessons from the 1918 flu on masks, lifting of social distancing orders, and the risk of “a second peak of death.”
A reminder from this book that pre-dates the Trump presidency that the fortune Trump inherited is connected to 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
Final tweet of this thread: a timely reminder from author @lfspinney’s book on the Spanish flu about the danger of misinformation in a pandemic.
