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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 591

Spanish Flu

A medical worker wearing PPE (personal protective equipment) takes a swab sample from a woman during a mass testing event at a sport complex in Bangkok on April 17, 2021, after the recent outbreak of coronavirus cases in Thailand. (Mladen ANTONOV / AFP)
April 17, 2021, 5:19 pm
How does the coronavirus compare with other deadly viruses?
The pandemic has killed more people than most, but not all, other viral epidemics in the 20th and 21st centuries
By AFP
Sir Mark Walport in March 2020 (Sky News screenshot)
August 23, 2020, 5:25 pm
Top UK scientist warns COVID-19 likely won’t ever truly go away
Former chief scientific adviser Mark Walport says that like the flu, the coronavirus ‘almost certainly will require repeated vaccinations’ to contain
By ToI Staff
A New Mexico state police officer screens cars for compliance with an emergency lockdown order that bans nonessential visitors and limits vehicle passengers to two people as they enter Gallup, New Mexico, May 7, 2020 (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
May 11, 2020, 8:52 am
US woman, 105, who beat 1918 flu has COVID-19
Lubica Grenco was born when World War I began, then she survived the flu, which killed her mother and 1-month-old sister, before enduring the Great Depression and World War II
By AP
Marilee Shapiro Asher at her home in Washington, DC, in 2015. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)
May 7, 2020, 4:04 am
She survived 1918 Spanish flu and COVID-19. What’s this 107-year-old’s secret?
Marilee Shapiro Asher was given just 12 hours to live after contracting the coronavirus, but walked out of hospital five days later to return to her eight-decade art career
By Ben Harris
A member of a desinfection squad cleans a nursery in the French Riviera city of Cannes, southern France, on May 6, 2020, as the nurseries in France are to gradually reopen from May 11, when a partial lifting of restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus comes into effect. (Valery Hache/AFP)
May 6, 2020, 6:36 pm
Fears of second wave lurk as countries begin to ease virus lockdowns
Experts warn resurgence of COVID-19 only a matter of time as governments set up snapback restrictions
By Nicole Winfield, Angela Charlton and Chris Blake
In this 1918 photo, volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, used as a temporary hospital. (Edward A. "Doc" Rogers/Library of Congress via AP)
May 5, 2020, 10:58 am
Virus-afflicted 2020 looks very much like 1918 despite science’s march
Many aspects of the current pandemic and the response to it are similar to so-called Spanish flu, even after a century of scientific advancement
By Calvin Woodward
World War II veteran Philip Kahn, who died from the coronavirus on April 17, 2020. (Facebook)
April 25, 2020, 1:54 pm
WWII veteran dies from coronavirus 100 years after his twin died of Spanish Flu
Grandson of Philip Kahn says he would often warn that history repeats itself, ‘knew the irony of what was going on’ after he began coughing
By ToI Staff
A frozen box of flu virus strains is seen at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, in Bethesda, Md. 2018 was the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
March 8, 2020, 3:38 am
Coronavirus follows a century of epidemics, dating back to the Spanish Flu
AIDS is by far the most deadly epidemic of modern times, with 32 million victims; post-World War I Spanish Flu killed up to 50 million
By Olivier THIBAULT and Jean-Philippe CHOGNOT
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