Spanish Flu

Thursday, 26 August 2021 WEBSITE OF THE YEAR APP OF THE YEAR Business 24 Aug, 2021 05:00 PM5 minutes to read A daily wrap of all the main developments in the Covid-19 Delta outbreak as New Zealand is plunged into lockdown for the fifth time. Video / Mark Mitchell /…

An electronic billboard flashes instructions on the train platform at the Archives station in Washington D.C. on March 25, 2020. Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) Researchers warn that the next major pandemic may not be too far away. In a new paper out Monday, they estimate that a pandemic as…

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Celia Malcolm vowed not to let the pandemic restrictions dampen her 100th birthday celebrations, despite her family not being there due to border closures. The regional South Australian aged resident, born on August 17, 1921, glowed with pride and joy at Boandik St Mary's aged care facility, sporting a fresh haircut to commemorate the special…

According to leaked slides, the Delta variant is more transmissible than Ebola, Smallpox and the 1918 Spanish Flu – thus, the CDC is calling for universal masking, vaccine mandates and more mitigation strategies.  The slides suggest that the next steps for the CDC are to “acknowledge the war has changed,…

Malaysians and even politicians took to social media to poke fun at Health Minister Adham Baba for slipping up during his talk at Universiti Putra Malaysia today, mistaking the Spanish Flu for the infamous sexual stimulant.  The health minister went from health talk to sex talk in front of an…

The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare many fault lines in American society, from the savage inequalities of our health care system to the collapse of federal governance into a quagmire of blame-shifting and conspiracy-mongering during much of the crisis. For longtime financial journalist Michael Lewis, though, the effort to comprehend…

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img source: unsplash.com Since the beginning of the healthcare industry, nurses and doctors have donned uniforms that provided them an extra layer of protection while setting them apart from other workers. But medical uniforms have never stayed as-is for a long time.  Whenever there was a significant event, healthcare work…

29 Mar 2021 What have we learned and what have we forgotten from one hundred years ago – and will we make the same mistakes again? https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thefourcast/210326_Spanish_Flu_Mix_1515.mp3 Millions dead, multiple waves, ships quarantined; a world in crisis. One hundred years ago, humankind was hit by a deadly pandemic during the…