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Pandemics: avoiding the mistakes of 1918

As bodies piled up, the United States' response to the 'Spanish flu' was to tell the public that there was no cause for alarm. The authority figures who glossed over the truth lost their credibility, says John M. Barry.

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Autor principal: Barry, John M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095066/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19458695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/459324a
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spelling pubmed-70950662020-03-26 Pandemics: avoiding the mistakes of 1918 Barry, John M. Nature Article As bodies piled up, the United States' response to the 'Spanish flu' was to tell the public that there was no cause for alarm. The authority figures who glossed over the truth lost their credibility, says John M. Barry. Nature Publishing Group UK 2009-05-20 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC7095066/ /pubmed/19458695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/459324a Text en © Nature Publishing Group 2009 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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