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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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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I wouldn't underestimate the archival challenge here, though, especially if you're looking at early on in Central Asia and the Caucuses, that would probably entail several different research languages *and* the medical terminology or popular euphemisms in each of them.
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