Event: AFTERSHOCK – Looking back at 1918 for a view of Vancouver’s future
Event Description
The first victim in Vancouver of the 1918 influenza epidemic Annie Sachs a mother of three young children – died on October 8, 1918. By October 27, 1918, 24 people in Vancouver died in a single day. Before the disease’s fury was spent, almost one per cent of Vancouver’s population had died.
In the following decade, Vancouver underwent extraordinary changes in urban planning, design and architecture as World War One ended, the economy shuddered, protests filled the streets and cities re-invented themselves.
A century later, Vancouver is once again grappling with the effects of a pandemic. The boundaries between past and present begin to blur when we look closely at what happened in 1918 and where we are now.
Sittingbourne pensioner dies after Covid test in hospital
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Updated: 23:32, 16 December 2020
The daughter of a man who died a day after testing positive for Covid-19 while in hospital after a routine operation has described the events as âunacceptableâ.
Retired painter Ray Howe was admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham in mid-November to repair a broken hip.
Ray Howe with his wife Betty
The 86-year-old was recovering well and was days away from returning to the home he shared with his daughter Mary when a routine Covid-19 test proved positive. He died one day later.
He had been in hospital for two weeks. The test was carried out after his admission.