A Centenary Tale of Two Pandemics: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19, Part II.
Am J Public Health
; 111(7): 1267-1272, 2021 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1350205
ABSTRACT
Both the 1918 influenza pandemic and the 2019â2021 COVID-19 pandemic are among the most disastrous infectious disease emergences of modern times. In addition to similarities in their clinical, pathological, and epidemiological features, the two pandemics, separated by more than a century, were each met with essentially the same, or very similar, public health responses, and elicited research efforts to control them with vaccines, therapeutics, and other medical approaches. Both pandemics had lasting, if at times invisible, psychosocial effects related to loss and hardship. In considering these two deadly pandemics, we ask what lessons have we learned over the span of a century, and how are we applying those lessons to the challenges of COVID-19?
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Communicable Disease Control
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Influenza, Human
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Pandemics
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Am J Public Health
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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