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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My own "hobby" virus is yellow fever—long story but I read a lot of primary sources on it. It's pretty striking to follow the causal inference of the time—they didn't even have a proper theory but were very observant and a lot of hypothesis-testing (though not called that).
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So my guess would be that a deep historical dive would unearth a lot of detailed accounts that probably never got collated together, or looked through modern clinical eyes.
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