"Ewing predicts the strong desire to get past the pandemic will translate to a lack of commemoration or change, but Bristow tends towards optimism.

'No one has escaped completely unscathed,' she says. 'But will that make us more humane with one another, more caring of one another? My hope is that trauma that everyone has experienced at some level will make for a more robust reckoning in the aftermath than we saw in 1918.'"

http://archive.today/2024.02.05-040522/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-lessons-learned-from-1918-flu-fatigue-according-to-historians

Tfw Ewing was right 😔

#1918flu #pandemic #covid #covid19 #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

Article from Dec 2020:

"A century of COVID-19: what history tells us about the long-term effects of a pandemic"

https://gero.usc.edu/2020/12/08/century-covid-pandemic-risk/

“The fact that this cohort of people had elevated risks of disease even more than six decades after the pandemic indicates that maternal exposure to the infvirus appears to have had wide-ranging and long-lasting health effects on offspring"

#1918Flu #longCOVID #MECFS #COVID19 #Influenza #H1N1 #longFlu #NEISvoid #pwME

FASCINATING & just a little scary

This is a really interesting study proposing that increased heart disease cases and deaths during the 1960's may have been a late result of the 1918 influence pandemic.

#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #Covid #Pandemic #1918flu

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC387427/

Are you learning about #ImmunologicalImprinting in the context of debates about Covid booster strategies -- how often people at different risk levels should be boosted and with what mix of variants?

You might be interested in this piece in @TheConversationUS (by me and @martineiermann) about how #imprinting may have been the key to an odd puzzle about the #1918flu pandemic.

https://theconversation.com/1918-flu-pandemic-upended-long-standing-social-inequalities-at-least-for-a-time-new-study-finds-195718

@TheConversation_us