Spanish Flu

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She lived a life of adventure that spanned two continents. She fell in love with a World War II fighter pilot, barely escaped Europe ahead of Benito Mussolini’s fascists, ground steel for the U.S. war effort and advocated for her disabled daughter in a far less enlightened time. She was,…

The Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to Pfizer booster shots for Americans over the age of 65 and those at high risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms. The authorization, issued after the U.S. death toll surpassed that of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic earlier this week,…

Navigation for News Categories A dairy that opened in Auckland during World War I and survived through the Spanish Flu pandemic is within an inch of its life after the latest lockdown. Owner of D. Jairam and Sons on Ponsonby Road, Suresh Jeram. Photo: RNZ / Jordan Bond The owner…

Somchai um-im/Getty Images The 1918 influenza pandemic, also called the Spanish flu, is estimated to have killed 500 million people worldwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or about one-third of the global population. In the US, where the "unique feature" of the flu caused a lot…

Culture The world has changed dramatically in the past 20 months. Who would have imagined the rolling lockdown on a global scale? Jillian Godsil · September 21, 2021 at 9:00 pm UTC · 6 min read The great Spanish Flu in 2018 may have killed many more people – some…

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Roommates, according to new findings from medical experts, COVID-19 has now claimed the lives of as many Americans as the Spanish Flu did back in 1918 and 1919, with the number now totaling a staggering 675,000. The COVID-19 pandemic is sadly proving every day that it isn’t fading away as…

Topline The U.S. reported 675,444 total confirmed coronavirus on Monday according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University, surpassing the number of Americans believed to have died during the Flu of 1918 and making the coronavirus the most deadly pandemic in American history. James Harvey tends tends to the inventory…