Spanish Flu

A policeman wearing a flu mask speaks to a maskless man during the Spanish flu pandemic in San Francisco in 1918.California State LibrarySan Francisco has been praised for adhering to the advice of public health officials and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic quickly.But a century earlier during the Spanish flu…

RMIT ABC Fact Check Updated May 20, 2020 11:07:28 In just a few short weeks, COVID-19 became part of the global lexicon, uttered daily in tones of dread and as shorthand for the pandemic now afflicting the world.But how was its name derived; likewise, the names of other fatal viruses?…

Bill Gates recommended the book "The Great Influenza" as part of his summer reading list. The book chronicles the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that resulted in 50 million deaths worldwide.Gates said he re-read the book for advice on handling the current pandemic, and came away with four key recommendations.He said…

Peter Morici Published: May 18, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. ET Progressives will be stymied in their efforts to expand big government New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been a high-profile leader in the fight against the coronavirus. Getty Images As with other great crises, progressives are anticipating the coronavirus lockdown…

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It’s anyone’s guess whether what Canadians experienced during the last pandemic will repeat today, but if you are like me and want to learn more about pandemics outside of what Netflix and other streaming services have to offer, I recommend you read Mark Osborne Humphries’s 2012 book, “The Last Plague:…

View photosCoronavirus coverage on YahooThe COVID-19 pandemic has halted all sporting events, as well as every other large gathering in the United States, and fans are wondering how and when games will return.It’s worth it to look back at what sports looked like during the 1918 influenza pandemic, commonly called…

The 1918 Flu Pandemic claimed at least 50 million lives worldwide. That year, much like today, no one knew how long the nightmare of a pandemic would last. "The virus was so lethal and so scary, without any social distancing orders, people emptied the streets," says John M. Barry, the author of…

Sylvia Goldsholl, 108, may be the nation’s oldest COVID-19 survivor.Less than a week after Nancy Chazen, Goldsholl’s niece, got a call from her nursing home saying Goldsholl had the virus, the nursing home called Chazen again. She had recovered.Goldsholl has now lived through two pandemics: She was born in 1911, the eldest of…

United States Senator Richard Burr stepped down as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee after his mobile phone was seized by federal agents as part of the US Department of Justice's probe into stock transactions made by the politician before the sharp market downturn triggered by the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year, Senate…