Photo: Julia Lototskaya (Shutterstock)Recently, headlines warned of a new flu virus with “pandemic potential,” based on a study of viruses on pig farms in China. There’s no need to immediately start freaking out, however: While it’s always a safe assumption there will be another pandemic someday, this one is not cause for concern just yet.…
When will the COVID-19 pandemic end? And how? According to historians, pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical, which occurs when the incidence and death rates plummet, and the social, when the epidemic of fear about the disease wanes.
An infectious outbreak can conclude in more ways than one, historians say. But for whom does it end, and who gets to decide?A Sicilian fresco from 1445. In the previous century, the Black Death killed at least a third of Europe’s population.Credit...Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesMay 10, 2020Updated 9:43 a.m. ETWhen will the Covid-19 pandemic…
As COVID-19 continues to strain health systems around the country, local leaders are trying to address the mental health needs of people in their communities. Why it matters: Unlike the physical maladies the pandemic causes, its psychological toll is often invisible, and stress tends to have a cumulative effect that may not be apparent until…
(Newser) – When Philip Kahn was just weeks old, his twin brother died in the 1918 flu pandemic. As Kahn grew older, he often spoke of the possibility of another pandemic striking during his lifetime, grandson Warren Zysman tells CNN. "He would say to me, 'I told you history repeats itself, 100 years is not…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…