Lessons from when we skipped the consultants and produced the materials that won a war The post There Was a Time Canada ...

Every day since the World War I Memorial first opened back in 2021, a bugler has played “Taps” live at 5 p.m. — rain or shine.

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...

Many of the protections and behaviours that helped us during the pandemic — like staying home when sick, wearing masks, and ...

One Facebook post (archived) with around 105,000 reactions at the time of this writing featured a photo of Kennedy with the caption: This pathetic moron claims the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by ...

HEALTH Skeletons from 1918 flu pandemic reveal clues about those most likely to die, study finds New research seems to contradict a long-standing belief that young, healthy people were most at risk ...

Journal Reference: Amanda Wissler, Sharon N. DeWitte. Frailty and survival in the 1918 influenza pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023; 120 (42) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2304545120 ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic was a surprising exception. Prior to the 1918 pandemic, Black people in the U.S. died of respiratory diseases at vastly higher rates than white people.

How will covid-19 transform the United States? The country’s last mass pandemic, the 1918 flu, caused lasting social, medical and political changes.

Deadly 1918 flu pandemic may be source of modern milder seasonal virus Viruses sequenced from century-old lung samples in German and Austrian museums have shed light on how flu can change over time ...

A woman wears an unusual type of mask to guard against the flu during the 1918 pandemic. At the time, no one knew that influenza was caused by a virus, and "flu" was a catchall term for a suite of ...