Spanish Flu

Posted September 16, 2020 at 6:00amDeCamp Bus Lines in Montclair, N.J., began as a horse-and-buggy business 150 years ago, supporting six generations of the DeCamp family.It endured the transition to motorized vehicles beginning in 1909 and the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19, not to mention two world wars, the Great Depression and…

With the U.S. still struggling to decrease the rate of new coronavirus infections, experts believe a second wave is poised to arrive in mid-October. Keeping new infections down over the next few weeks will be especially critical as the impending flu season might cause a huge spike in new coronavirus…

Blood Transfusions Help Reduce COVID-19 Mortality by 35% Brian Wang | August 24, 2020 | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for investigational convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients. The tests on 70,000 people suggest that the blood transfusion can…

The “Karen” meme has left most Britons with negative thoughts about the name, a new study has revealed. Karen is being used to describe middle-class women who act in a privileged and demanding manner. New data shows 62% of UK adults now associate the name with traits including entitlement, obnoxiousness,…

Does history repeat? Ask an ancestor.I was in hotel quarantine when I discovered a letter written in 1919 by my great-aunt Jean about her work as a voluntary aide during Australia’s Spanish flu outbreak. Young writer Jean Curlewis, aged 21, was writing to her mother, Ethel Turner (Curlewis), the popular…

Nearly 800 000 people have been killed by coronavirus worldwide.WHO's Tedro Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it should be possible to tame Covid-19 faster than the Spanish flue.He said the world has the advantage of better technology to fight the virus.The World Health Organisation said Friday it hopes the planet will be…

The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus crisis will be over in less than two years, according to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The Spanish flu that affected the world back in 1918 took two years to end, he said. "Our situation now with more technology, of course with more connectiveness, the…

The pandemic could tear aside pieties and posturing and unveil a more authentic India by sparking the kind of economic surge that shaped the Roaring Twenties after the Spanish flu epidemic TopicsCoronavirus | Lockdown Only someone born to riches like Jawaharlal Nehru would dream of a “socialistic pattern of society” for India.…

When the coronavirus swept through New York City in the spring, it brought with it a staggering surge in deaths — one that was comparable, researchers say, to the 1918 flu pandemic in the city.That’s according to a study published Thursday in JAMA Network Open that drew on death statistics…

The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday - Friday plus breaking news updates Donald Trump has claimed that the Spanish Flu "in 1917" was "probably" what ended the Second World War. But that war ended in 1945, with the pandemic actually occurring the same year as the…