Prior pandemics. looking to the past for insight into the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 is not the world's first pandemic, not its worst, or likely to be its last. In fact, there have been many pandemics throughout history with lessons for the current one. The most destructive pandemic of all time, at least in terms of the number of people killed in the shortest time, was...

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Autor principal: Mackowiak, Philip A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2021
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History of Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8043558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33889313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1855706
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description COVID-19 is not the world's first pandemic, not its worst, or likely to be its last. In fact, there have been many pandemics throughout history with lessons for the current one. The most destructive pandemic of all time, at least in terms of the number of people killed in the shortest time, was the “Spanish flu“ pandemic of 1918/1919. Why did it happen? What lessons did it teach us? And could it happen again? These questions are addressed in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic and several other nearly equally devastating pandemics of earlier times
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spelling pubmed-80435582021-04-21 Prior pandemics. looking to the past for insight into the COVID-19 pandemic Mackowiak, Philip A. J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect History of Medicine COVID-19 is not the world's first pandemic, not its worst, or likely to be its last. In fact, there have been many pandemics throughout history with lessons for the current one. The most destructive pandemic of all time, at least in terms of the number of people killed in the shortest time, was the “Spanish flu“ pandemic of 1918/1919. Why did it happen? What lessons did it teach us? And could it happen again? These questions are addressed in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic and several other nearly equally devastating pandemics of earlier times Taylor & Francis 2021-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8043558/ /pubmed/33889313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1855706 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Greater Baltimore Medical Center. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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