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Photos: How the 1918 flu and COVID-19 pandemics compare
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The world has COVID-19 more than a century after the 1918 flu pandemic.
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There are strong parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1918 flu pandemic, considered to be the deadliest of the 20th century.
Photos: How the 1918 and COVID pandemics compare © Apic/Getty Images Red Cross volunteers fighting against the Spanish flu epidemic in the United States in 1918.
Editors note: Some of the images below are animations showing two images and may take longer to load. There are strong parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1918 flu pandemic, considered to be the deadliest of the 20th century. The 1918 flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million worldwide, including nearly 675,000 Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To date, more than 95.6 million people have been infected with COVID-19 worldwide. More than 2 million have died, including at least 400,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
What Long Flu Sufferers of the 1918-1919 Pandemic Can Tell Us About Long COVID Today Time 12/31/2020 Laura Spinney © Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images American Ward at Fourth Scottish General Hospital, where most patients are influenza cases, in November 1918.
“We were leaden-footed for weeks, to the point where each step meant a determined effort,” Miss Goring recalled. “It also was very difficult to remember any simple thing, even for five minutes.”
Miss Goring was describing the period of her convalescence after the 1918 flu pandemic, which she lived through in her native South Africa. Her memories form part of a collection published by South African historian Howard Phillips on the centenary of that disaster. It’s not the only one. Another collection published around the same time by New Zealand historian Geoffrey Rice is also littered with references to long-term symptoms of that flu from “loss of muscular
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