"The Great Influenza" from_date:2012

A year of terror and a century of reflection: perspectives on the great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. In the spring of 1918, the "War to End All Wars", which would ultimately claim more than 37 million lives, had entered into its final year and would change the global political and economic landscape forever. At the same time, a new global threat was emerging and would become one of the most

The Eighteen of 1918-1919: Black Nurses and the Great Flu Pandemic in the United States. This article examines the role of Black American nurses during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic and the aftermath of World War I. The pandemic caused at least 50 million deaths worldwide and 675 000 in the United States. It occurred during a period of pervasive segregation and racial violence, in which Black

The great influenza centennial - what have we learned about the epidemiology and prevention of transmission?

close temporal correlations between the plague and the discovery of population thinking, cholera and population-based group comparisons, tuberculosis and the formalization of cohort studies, the 1918 Great Influenza and the creation of an academic epidemiologic counterpart to the public health service, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the formalization of causal inference concepts. The COVID-19 pandemic

. Barry, J. (2005). The Great Influenza. The Story of the Greatest Pandemic in History. Penguin Publishing Group4. McPherson, K. (2012). Beside Matters. The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990. University of Toronto Press.(Visited 4,635 times, 2 visits today)Covid-19 Post navigationPrevious postNext post SearchAnalysis and discussion of developments in Evidence-Based Nursing.Visit

of enforced HCW influenza vaccination attribute implausibly large reductions in patient risk to HCW vaccination, casting serious doubts on their validity. The impression that unvaccinated HCWs place their patients at great influenza peril is exaggerated. Instead, the HCW-attributable risk and vaccine-preventable fraction both remain unknown and the NNV to achieve patient benefit still requires better

, of course. The fact that we are in the midst of the worst infectious disease outbreak since the Great Influenza of 1918 (yes, that onewasworse, and yes, there were other horrible outbreak years as well) is only the beginning of the laundry list of known unknowns that will affect how many people vote, and how many of those votes will count.That laundry list includes Trump whipping up his Brownshirt brigade

and menacing about that.VI. More on books to read another day, but if anyone wants to step back from the daily COVID cacophony yet still learn something about this moment in history in which we find ourselves, there may not be a better book than John Barry's The Great Influenza. It is impossible to read this book now without feeling a sense of deja vu. If you really do have the time on your hands

. 17. Jay Toigo says:June 17, 2018 at 1:32 amThe book “The Great Influenza” by John M. Barry has many historical references on this topic. 18. 19. Alain Gagnon says:June 27, 2018 at 12:25 pmGood summary of the 1918 flu pandemic. But the sentence “The average age of those who died during the pandemic was 28 years old” (end of the first section) is inaccurate. Twenty-eight was the age

in data from the other systems: ILI cases self-reported through the web-based Great Influenza Survey (GIS); influenza-related web searches through Google Flu Trends (GFT); patients admitted to hospital with laboratory-confirmed pandemic influenza, and detections of influenza virus by laboratories. In addition, correlations were determined between ILI consultation rates of the sentinel GPs and data from

of weight, exercise, and cardiovascular disease. It is an epidemic in every sense of the word. Indeed, it is a pandemic, no more or less than The Great Influenza of the early 20th century, as this Timesarticle shows that the problem has spread to the other side of the world as well.The bottom line: we need to be exercising more. Wecan't get too much exercise. If you get around to Swedish ski marathons