How Does a Pandemic End? Here’s What We Can Learn From the 1918 Flu

Even after that virus died out, it would be years before scientists better understood what happened, and some mystery still ...
Yahoo

Remembering March 11, 2020: The day the threat of COVID became real and everything changed

One day, SARS-CoV-2 was somebody else’s problem: the residents of Wuhan, China; the doctors and nurses of northern Italy; the passengers aboard a Diamond Princess cruise ship. The next day, it was ...
Bay Area Reporter

The Forgotten Pandemic - Echoes of AIDS History in COVID-19

"This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it's not going to be localized, it's going to be happening all over the country and I want America to understand that," said Vice ...
Healio

Fauci: HIV, COVID-19 pandemics taught us to ‘expect the unexpected’

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The HIV and COVID-19 pandemics were decades apart but shared many lessons. Among the lessons for clinicians are ...
Psychology Today

Lessons Should Have Been Learned From Previous Pandemics

Global pandemics are not a new phenomenon, with one of the first documented being the Black Death in the 1300s and, in more recent history, the Spanish Flu of 1918. So why were we not fully prepared ...
Time

The Pandemic Turns 5. We Are Still Not Prepared for the Next One

A mask lies on a sidewalk. It’s hard to believe it's been five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, the disease has killed more than 1.2 million Americans—more than in any other ...
World Socialist Web Site

5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the return of Trump and the war on public health

“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a grand scale.”—Dr. Rudolph Virchow, known as “the father of modern pathology” and the central figure in the emergence of public ...
CNBC

The coronavirus may be deadlier than the 1918 flu: Here's how it stacks up to other pandemics

Three months after the coronavirus emerged in China, it has quickly spread to nearly half a million people across the globe, killing more than 22,000 people and bringing the world economy to a ...
KTNV Las Vegas

COVID-19 Five Years Later: Impacts left behind from the pandemic in Las Vegas

(KTNV) — As we reflect on the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic five years later, we uncover the lessons learned and the stories that shaped us here at home. This pivotal time in history has ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Here's a look at some of history's worst pandemics that have killed millions

SAN FRANCISCO -- Health officials are warning that the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19, has the potential to become a global pandemic. A pandemic will expose everyone to an ...
Psychology Today

Lessons Should Have Been Learned From Previous Pandemics

In December 2024, on the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, UN-Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated: “The COVID-19 crisis may have passed, but a harsh lesson remains: The world is ...