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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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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So a grad student going through the archives for primary descriptions (especially early on) globally might be able to provide a lot of clarity to the symptom set. (As "conclusions" spread, you see stuff become homogenized circularly: there was a lot of communication).
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Trying to interpret reports of this period to distinguish between influenza and coronavirus infections seems doomed to failure. At the time they could not even agree it was due to an infectious agent;pic.twitter.com/R73hNBHXlG
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This and much more in Smith's excellent historical commentary SMITH, F. B. (1995). The Russian Influenza in the United Kingdom, 1889–1894. Social History of Medicine, 8(1), 55–73. doi:10.1093/shm/8.1.55pic.twitter.com/11DcmjnVxC
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