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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The similarities based on historical clinical records are fascinating
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Yeah, fascinating. Of course we should remain open to contra evidence but a lot of things are pointing in the same direction.
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iirc the age stratification data from the 1890 epidemic was striking, to the point that an AJPH paper not that long afterwards suggested that closing schools wasn't necessary
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