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Photos: How the 1918 flu and COVID-19 pandemics compare

Photos: How the 1918 flu and COVID-19 pandemics compare
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Comparing and contrasting the coronavirus and 1918 flu pandemics through images

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The world has COVID-19 more than a century after the 1918 flu pandemic.
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Grim new milestone: US reaches 400,000 COVID-19 deaths
New strains of COVID-19 are emerging, including one from England that could become a dominant virus. Another strain could be responsible for new outbreaks in California.Apic/Getty Images
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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. ....

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Photos: How the 1918 and COVID pandemics compare

Photos: How the 1918 and COVID pandemics compare
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Red Cross volunteers fighting against the Spanish flu epidemic in the United States in 1918.
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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.
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. ....

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What Long Flu Sufferers of the 1918-1919 Pandemic Can Tell Us About Long COVID Today

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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