Comparing COVID-19 and the 1918–19 influenza pandemics in the United Kingdom

We compared the COVID-19 and 1918–19 influenza pandemics in the United Kingdom. We found that the ongoing COVID-19 wave of infection matched the major wave of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic surprisingly well, with both reaching similar magnitudes (in terms of estimated weekly new infections) and spe...

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Autores principales: He, Daihai, Zhao, Shi, Li, Yingke, Cao, Peihua, Gao, Daozhou, Lou, Yijun, Yang, Lin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7318986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32599281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.075
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author He, Daihai
Zhao, Shi
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Cao, Peihua
Gao, Daozhou
Lou, Yijun
Yang, Lin
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description We compared the COVID-19 and 1918–19 influenza pandemics in the United Kingdom. We found that the ongoing COVID-19 wave of infection matched the major wave of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic surprisingly well, with both reaching similar magnitudes (in terms of estimated weekly new infections) and spending the same duration with over five cases per 1000 inhabitants over the previous two months. We also discussed the similarities in epidemiological characteristics between these two pandemics.
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spelling pubmed-73189862020-06-29 Comparing COVID-19 and the 1918–19 influenza pandemics in the United Kingdom He, Daihai Zhao, Shi Li, Yingke Cao, Peihua Gao, Daozhou Lou, Yijun Yang, Lin Int J Infect Dis Perspective We compared the COVID-19 and 1918–19 influenza pandemics in the United Kingdom. We found that the ongoing COVID-19 wave of infection matched the major wave of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic surprisingly well, with both reaching similar magnitudes (in terms of estimated weekly new infections) and spending the same duration with over five cases per 1000 inhabitants over the previous two months. We also discussed the similarities in epidemiological characteristics between these two pandemics. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020-09 2020-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7318986/ /pubmed/32599281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.075 Text en © 2020 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_short Comparing COVID-19 and the 1918–19 influenza pandemics in the United Kingdom
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7318986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32599281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.075
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