Spanish Flu

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…

This is pretty transparent: The Washington Post has a piece today on how Boston refused to close the schools during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic and children died as a result. (Note also that the woke Post doesn’t refer to the Spanish flu as the Spanish flu anymore.)Boston refused to…

At a White House press briefing on Monday, President Donald Trump wrongly stated the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 ended World War II, which started in 1939.Answering a reporter who asked whether he would have called for his predecessor President Barack Obama to resign if 160,000 people had died of…

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…

The first coronavirus novel from a major British writer has just been published. Summer, the last book in Scottish writer Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet, is infused with the pandemic we are living through. That it has appeared now is a tribute to the agility of both author and publisher, whose…

OpinionThe rule of law survived during the world wars and the Spanish flu. So there's no reason to abandon democratic checks and balances on the Victorian government.Michael BorskyContributorBefore this year, no Victorian Premier had ever declared a state of disaster. Premier Andrews has now done it twice.This is precisely not…

The Spanish flu has swept back into public consciousness thanks to Covid-19, ending its status as a “forgotten pandemic”. Experts emphasise that the infamous second wave of this flu from a century ago was a very different disease from Covid-19 – but also say that it provides historical lessons to help face…

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