But history also reveals that the aftershocks of pandemics can linger for far longer than five years. Signs suggest our global economy and politics are suffering their own form of long Covid, and we ...

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.

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Some historians say it is all of the above, which makes Covid stand out in the annals of pandemics. In many ways, historians say, the Covid pandemic — which the World Health Organization ...

Experiences from the 1918 and 20th century influenza pandemics helped immensely in the preparation of a better response for A(H1N1)pdm09. The explosive pattern of the 1918 pandemic makes it a ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

As the accompanying photos show, Florida and humanity at large, have suffered many banes of existence, from cholera to yellow fever, tuberculosis, polio, smallpox and measles. All plagues that have ...

Global pandemics are not a new phenomenon, with one of the first documented being the Black Death in the 1300s and, in more recent history, the Spanish Flu of 1918. So why were we not fully ...

Science writer Laura Spinney told me that one reason we forget pandemics is, paradoxically, because they’re so all-encompassing. Her book “Pale Rider” is a history of the 1918 flu ...

These ‘zoonotic’ diseases have been responsible for all recent outbreaks and pandemics that have threatened our global health – including COVID-19, HIV and Ebola. New zoonotic diseases are emerging at ...

which was widely called the most-deadly in recorded history. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. As the accompanying photos show, Florida and humanity at large, have suffered ...