Five years after the virus was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2025, worldwide deaths from Covid-19 are estimated at 19-36 million by sources like the World Health Organization and The Economist.

Past epidemics may offer some insight into what ... It quickly spread to the Native American population, which had up until now been free of this communicable disease. It’s unclear how many ...

The epidemic will continue its lethal campaign into 1919, ultimately killing upwards of 600,000 people. It will be deemed the worst epidemic in American history.

The vaccine became available in 1963, and endemic measles was eliminated in the US by the year 2000. However, outbreaks still occur among unvaccinated populations. In February, an unvaccinated ...

and anthrax has been released in North America. Have students role-play a panel of experts advising governments and citizens' groups on how to use historical information about epidemics ...

Asked how she was fairing during the shelter in place, Stanford University historian Kathryn Olivarius reflected on being a researcher studying early American epidemics during the COVID-19 crisis.

(We are hardly first: Asians around the globe already faced prejudice because of the epidemic ... history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting ...

The Joyner Drug Co. of Spokane ran an alarming advertisement that read, “There IS Another Flu Epidemic – Be Prepared” in the Spokane Daily Chronicle on March 19, 1925. From 1925: The Joyner ...

The epidemic will continue its lethal campaign into 1919, ultimately killing upwards of 600,000 people. It will be deemed the worst epidemic in American history.