• Am J Public Health · Jun 2021

    Historical Article

    A Centenary Tale of Two Pandemics: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19, Part I.

    • David M Morens, Jeffery K Taubenberger, and Anthony S Fauci.
    • David M. Morens and Anthony S. Fauci are with Office of the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Jeffery K. Taubenberger is with Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID.
    • Am J Public Health. 2021 Jun 1; 111 (6): 1086-1094.

    AbstractSeparated by a century, the influenza pandemic of 1918 and the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-2021 are among the most disastrous infectious disease emergences of modern times. Although caused by unrelated viruses, the two pandemics are nevertheless similar in their clinical, pathological, and epidemiological features, and in the civic, public health, and medical responses to combat them. Comparing and contrasting the two pandemics, we consider what lessons we have learned over the span of a century and how we are applying those lessons to the challenges of COVID-19.

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