Spanish Flu

If it is meant to be, then it is meant to be, no matter what the business condition is. This is the law of proper timing, which embodies the positive story of Marivic Hernandez, yet it’s against all odds. It has been my fondness to go around the Metro and…

The World Health Organization will soon reveal more details about the planned investigation of the novel coronavirus’s origin in China. The WHO negotiated the terms of the upcoming investigation with China over the summer, without revealing any of the conclusions to the public. A New York Times report reveals the…

Updated 1 week ago · Published on 25 Sep 2020 2:20PM · Handout shows ampoules of a possible Covid-19 vaccine in production in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on September 15, 2020  Sanofi expects application for approval of the vaccine in the first half of 2021. The novel coronavirus pandemic, soon…

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…