Do people know that the 1890 pandemic was likely caused by another coronavirus, OC43 (that was then novel?) Nowadays, no longer novel, it is one of the causes of the common cold. We're obviously not living in the OC43 pandemic since, and we won't live in a COVID pandemic forever.
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Also 1890 was anosmic (and thus neurotropic, which we don't see for influenza in humans). I'd say pretty likely!https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1751-7915.13889 …
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The similarities based on historical clinical records are fascinating
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"Contemporary medical reports from Britain and Germany on patients suffering from a pandemic infection between 1889 and 1891, which was historically referred to as the Russian flu, share a number of characteristics with COVID-19.'
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There is also some seroarcheological evidence of an A(H3N8) pandemic around that time.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10593030/
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But maybe there was both a flu and a corona pandemic within a decade (gien the frequency of pandemics during 20th Century, that may not be too far-fetched). This "two-pandemic hypotehsis" might also explain the seemingly long duration of the pandemic period starting 1889.
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