Comparing the COVID-19 pandemic to the 1918 flu pandemic

preview_player
Показать описание
From public masking, to the push for better ventilation, to the movement of group indoor activities to the outdoors, some of the images from the 1918 flu pandemic are eerily similar to the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps unsurprisingly, some of the pitfalls seen more than a century ago persist today.

Dr. Jonathan Quick teaches global health studies at Duke's Global Health Institute and has poured his study of centuries of infectious diseases into his book The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It, which was first published in 2018, before the emergence of COVID-19. He was also former Director of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policies at the World Health Organization.

Quick sees many similarities between how the flu and coronavirus pandemics have played out, but also some stark and dangerous differences.

Рекомендации по теме
Комментарии
Автор

The so-called "spanish flu" did not hit the black and native communities as hard as it did the white community; this is due to jim crow laws which segregated (quarantined) the communities

gutkministries
Автор

It's the Kansas flu the war wanted Spain to enter, but the country stated neutral

xavierrodriguez