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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Part of the issue here is the circularity of assumption—so a historian needs to go find the original accounts, not the summaries. For example, if 1890 is not flu but assumed to be so, the clinical experience will get mentally coded as flu, and then details are circularly lost.+
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You see this with yellow fever where they arrive at some incorrect conclusions (screw up the incubation period) but then they write off certain options as "proven" wrong and it takes a bit of stubbornness for people to remain on track (since now they are going against evidence).
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Loss of smell was apparently also common during the 1918 pandemic. From John Barry's The Great Influenza:pic.twitter.com/9JlBs8QTtF
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