The Spanish flu pandemic can teach us about the COVID-19 coronavirus and a potential second wave that could be coming. ... Gov. DeSantis is making strategic plans to reopen the state in phases.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s newly appointed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) upheld ...

Then, in the 1910s, the ill-named Spanish flu pandemic hammered the global population. In the last century, we’ve also seen the scourges of polio, HIV, measles, SARS, and Ebola.

The Spanish Flu pandemic—that would perhaps kill as many as 50 million people worldwide during its course—entered the consciousness of the British public relatively slowly. Without global ...

Before SARS and coronavirus, Spanish flu infected a third of the world’s population and killed as many as 50 million in the waning years of World War I.

According to the WHO, flu causes 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness and up to 650,000 respiratory deaths each year, ...

Oct. 1, 2009— -- Male babies in the womb during the peak of the 1918-1919 flu pandemic were at increased risk of heart disease when they reached their 60s, 70s and 80s, researchers said.

View of victims of the Spanish flu cases as they lie in beads at a barracks hospital on the campus ... More of Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1918.

When comparing COVID-19 to the Spanish flu, which killed an estimated 675,000 in the USA, it's important to note that the U.S. population in 1918 was about a third of today's numbers.

May 22, 1918: The First Phase of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. ... Then we read in the newspapers about a new illness called the Spanish flu, because it had started in Spain. Now we knew.

More than 200,000 dead since March. Cities in lockdown. Vaccine trials underway. And a holiday message, of sorts: "See that Thanksgiving celebrations are restricted as much as possible so as to ...