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What Long Flu Sufferers of the 1918-1919 Pandemic Can Tell Us About Long COVID Today
Time
12/31/2020
Laura Spinney
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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 f ....

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