Influenza—The Sphinx of Diseases

Oliver, Wade W.

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican03011919-200

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“…The new pandemic was widely discussed in both medical journals (such as The Lancet and the British Medical Journal) and general science journals (such as Science and Scientific American). Among the topics of debate were the severity of the pandemic in comparison to previous ones (for example, Soper 1918) and the origin of the disease, with some suspecting a virus rather than Pfeiffer's bacillus was the cause (see, for example, Oliver 1919). By the beginning of 1919, epidemiologists were alarmed by the scale and the seriousness of the pandemic.…”

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How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918–1920

Boianovsky

Erreygers

2021

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The current Covid-19 pandemic has attracted significant attention from epidemiologists and economists alike. This differs from the 1918–1920 Spanish influenza pandemic, when academic economists hardly paid attention to its economic features, despite its very high death toll. We examine the reasons for that by contrasting the ways epidemiologists and economists reacted to the Spanish flu at the time and shortly after the pandemic. We also explore, but less extensively, some economic and epidemiologic writings during the twenty-five years that followed.

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How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918–1920

Boianovsky

Erreygers

2021

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“…The new pandemic was widely discussed in both medical journals (such as The Lancet and the British Medical Journal) and general science journals (such as Science and Scientific American). Among the topics of debate were the severity of the pandemic in comparison to previous ones (e.g., Soper, 1918) and the origin of the disease, with some suspecting a virus rather than Pfeiffer's bacillus was the cause (e.g., Oliver, 1919).…”

Section: How Epidemiologists and Statisticians Reacted To The Pandemicmentioning

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How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918–20

Boianovsky

Erreygers

2021

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Influenza—The Sphinx of Diseases

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How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918–1920

How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918–1920

How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918–20

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