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/* latin */ /* devanagari */ font-display: swap; font-display: swap; font-family: 'Ubuntu'; font-weight: 700; By early July, in 1968, Hong Kong public health officials were discovering an overabundance of patients with flu-like symptoms, and worse. 15 million global doses were available by the pandemic’s early peak, in January 1969. Considered to be a much more milder than its predecessor, the Asian Flu (1957-58), the virus responsible, Influenza Type A subtype H3N2 was brand new and had evolved from the Asian strain H2N2 as a result of an antigenic shift. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. src: local('Nunito Sans Bold'), local('NunitoSans-Bold'), url(https://blog.onlinemeded.org/wp-content/fonts/nunito-sans/pe03MImSLYBIv1o4X1M8cc8GBs5jU1cCVZl_86Y.woff) format('woff'); /* cyrillic */ During 1968-1969, the human race experienced it's third influenza pandemic of the 20th century, the Hong Kong flu. “The number of deaths caused by that pandemic in the first two years, 1968 and 1969, weren’t much higher than the average seasonal flu,”, Dr. David Morens, a senior scientific adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told, “[More than 11,000 people died in west Africa from an Ebola outbreak in 2014,”. font-weight: 400; The last thing anybody needs is to get infected with both COVID and flu. font-family: 'Eczar'; A New York Times article from August 17, 1969 reported that another Woodstock producer, Michael Lang, said a dozen doctors came to the festival not because of “widespread illnesses” but because of “the potential threat of a virus cold or pneumonia epidemic among such a large gathering.” ( here ) He did not mention the Hong Kong flu. font-display: swap; unicode-range: U+0900-097F, U+1CD0-1CF6, U+1CF8-1CF9, U+200C-200D, U+20A8, U+20B9, U+25CC, U+A830-A839, U+A8E0-A8FB; unicode-range: U+0370-03FF; If something like that happened in the modern world, we would quickly find we were living in a fools’ paradise. Examples can be seen here&set=a.103096283048450&type=3&theater and here&set=a.1935639191744&type=3&theater . font-family: 'Hind'; As of May 12, 2020 at least 286,669 people globally had died during the current COVID-19 outbreak ( coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html ). unicode-range: U+0100-024F, U+0259, U+1E00-1EFF, U+2020, U+20A0-20AB, U+20AD-20CF, U+2113, U+2C60-2C7F, U+A720-A7FF; And they believed that those two are related. font-family: 'Ubuntu'; font-family: 'Ubuntu'; @font-face { eflecting on the century following the Spanish influenza. /* latin-ext */ @font-face { The dominant strain of annual flu in January 2006 is H3N2. unicode-range: U+0400-045F, U+0490-0491, U+04B0-04B1, U+2116; Misleading. unicode-range: U+0100-024F, U+0259, U+1E00-1EFF, U+2020, U+20A0-20AB, U+20AD-20CF, U+2113, U+2C60-2C7F, U+A720-A7FF;

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font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; In the months following the December-January peak of the pandemic, the flu all but disappeared. font-style: normal; src: local('Lato Light'), local('Lato-Light'), url(https://blog.onlinemeded.org/wp-content/fonts/lato/S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwaPHw3q5d0N7w.woff) format('woff'); font-display: swap; src: local('Hind Regular'), local('Hind-Regular'), url(https://blog.onlinemeded.org/wp-content/fonts/hind/5aU69_a8oxmIdGl4AjGwgDI.woff) format('woff'); font-family: 'Nunito Sans'; By July, more than a million Indians had contracted it. font-weight: 400; @font-face { unicode-range: U+0000-00FF, U+0131, U+0152-0153, U+02BB-02BC, U+02C6, U+02DA, U+02DC, U+2000-206F, U+2074, U+20AC, U+2122, U+2191, U+2193, U+2212, U+2215, U+FEFF, U+FFFD;

( here ). For example, whereas illness was diffuse and affected only small numbers of people in Japan, it was widespread and deadly in the United States.” As John Fund remembers, the economy was not shut down, schools weren’t closed and things like concerts continued. font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; “COVID-19 is far more deadly than the 1968 pandemic virus … we have about five percent of herd immunity right now in the nation,” Morens later continued. "An early-onset, severe form of influenza A H3N2 made headlines when it claimed the lives of several children in the United States in late 2003."