#1918

Mello.B33

B33Mello

1/ I really didn't want to do this & i always try to stay within evidence & science realm & avoid ideas that are "out there" but this needs to

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

The Covid-19 pandemic has been traumatic for New York City. But just how traumatic, by historical standards? @foxjust turned to health records that date back to 1804 to find outhttps://trib.al/0ZhrSp8

Trippy Pip

TrippyPip

Doing some genealogy last night I came across a young man who died in the Great War 1918. When I come across fallen soldiers, I like to find out as

microBIO

microBIOblog

Sigue aquí en directo la madre de todas las #pandemias: la #gripe española de 1918. Una recortes de noticias de @DiariodeNavarra de hace 100 años. La gripe de 1918 en

Dr Tarun Deep Singh

tarunds

#COVID19 and drawing parallels to the mother of all pandemics. (A Thread) Has something remotely similar to COVID-19 occurred before?Let’s try to take a journey to a bygone era and

Per Axbom

axbom

1. The Spanish flu did not originate in Spain. They were just the first to report on it because they didn’t censor their press during the war. Those vulnerable were

Tuba Buckleberry

maanlichtt

Massacres of Turks and Kurds were carried out by Armenian gangs in the Caucasus. Justin McCarthy suggested that the reason for this is that Armenians have a small population of

The New York Times

nytimes

The U.S. death rate in 2020 was the highest above normal ever recorded in the country — surpassing the 1918 flu pandemic.A New York Times analysis shows how much 2020

Chinmay Tumbe

ChinmayTumbe

Lot of talk on the scale of under-reporting of deaths in India in this Covid19 wave. My research on the 1918 influenza outbreak in India placed it as 3x i.e.

Laurie Pohutsky

lpohutsky19

Recently, many have said that the country has never enacted policies like the ones we're currently seeing regarding social distancing and the restriction of businesses. Forgive my microbiology geekery here,

Blue Canaries

CanariesBlue

(thread)1. The 1918 Influenza epidemic was dubbed the Spanish Flu. Check out the recommendations. Did you know that the CDC recreated the Spanish Flu in 2005?? 2. STATEMENTUnmasking the 1918

Untold Stories Retold

retoldstories

*THREAD*The 1918 Influenza PandemicThe 1918 influenza outbreak or “Spanish flu” spread across the world between 1918 and 1919.Infecting 500 million people and killed 50 million, making it the deadliest pandemic of modern

Sambit Dash

sambit_dash

A story about a pandemic.“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. In the summer of 2005, these immortal words of Neil Armstrong was emailed by Dr

Kelly Bauer

BauerJournalism

Today, I wrote about how Chicago responded to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. The city had social distancing rules similar to what we've implemented now — and those guidelines saved

Carla-Jean

CarlaJeanStokes

A few people commented on the possibility that the photograph described as fallen British soldiers actually portrays fallen German soldiers. Some thoughts on this https://twitter.com/SimonJHistorian/status/1292853156490219523 Here's the

Axios

axios

In January 1918, the horrors of World War I were in their final year, and MLB was preparing for its 16th season. But beneath the surface, another deadly battle was