Could the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Happen Again?

The 1918 flu is commonly known as the "Mother of All Pandemics," because its descendants still occasionally resurface as pandemic influenza viruses today. In this video, NIAID experts Dr. David Morens and Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger discuss how a similar pandemic could emerge today--and what scientists are doing to prevent it.

[iaintevengonholdyou]

Hey I’m from 2020. To answer your question: yes, yes it can

[sonidoexperiencia]

It's crazy 100 years from now, we'll all be dead and the future will look back at this corona virus. If you're reading this from the future, I lived a good life

[techyrelic]

It’s interesting watching these videos that came out 1 to 2 years before covid and seeing them talking about future pandemics that could happen

[zehbinify]

Who is here, i hope u survive coronavirus pandemic

[sassulusmagnus]

Unless we develop ways of quickly and effectively responding to novel pathogens, so novel that there is nothing yet written about them in medical literature, we are extremely vulnerable.

[ESport]

Who's here after the coronavirus?

[AtukNakal]

Something similar happening right now and all the countries, governments doing exactly same as before..

[dianaz]

Well, I guess so. We just refuse to learn from history, aren't we something?!

[reportevents]

If only we could actually learn from are past and not for get what happens when we for get history

[asherdossetter]

I think it’s going to happen again in 2019. I think it may make its way over to the NFL and they’ll have to cancel the super bowl because of it.

[LuckyLei]

This is so sad. Someone saw it, just the voice was not heard "LOUD".
Shame
Hope we come out of this "well" and soon and learn something important that can be passed on to the future humans.

[paulaharrisbaca]

You know something creepy? I just noticed that this video was posted 100 years after my great grandma's first husband was sick and dying of the Spanish Flu. His gravestone, as all the gravestone's in the row in which he is buried, is dated Oct 31 1918. (Halloween as you'll notice). The entire row of headstones are all people born in the 1890's and who died in 1918. Just put the numbers up a century and you'll realize how scary that would be. If you have friends born in 1990 or 1988, they were quite likely to have caught the Spanish Flu and 1/2 of them likely to die from it in 2018. My great grandma didn't die because, she always claimed, she threw the icebags off her chest, which was the treatment for all these sick people quarantined in "sickhouses" on the edge of town (this was when San Francisco was a small place and had no suburbs to speak of). (I live in South San Francisco)

[phasor]

Well it's happening again now it's corona

[paularodi]

So after one year no one is question " WHY RESuRECT " such a Deadly virus? Eugenics!

[masterwilliamstudios]

World : let's avoid pandemics pls
China : let's eat diseased bats

[brendansmith]

Did the 1918 "flu" just eventually go away? If it kept coming back in other forms, why was that year the deadliest? Couldnthe same be true with corona?

[fortlesslive]

Answer: Yes, it could happen again in 2020

[Bella-lcdu]

This is posted 1 year ago, a year ago before the corona virus. Interesting!

[NM-mnxp]

I'm from the Future I can indeed say yes it can again

[lct]

It’s December 2020 and we are up to close to 300, 000 lives lost. I’ve toiled with the idea about getting a vaccine or not for a while. But, I think it would be a slap in the face to those that has passed prior...to know I have an opportunity to get it, but don’t?!? I’m a nurse that work in a nursing home therefore is considered one of the first to be offered. I’m kinda apprehensive of taking it, but would hate to get COVID and have a hard time getting over it.