{"id":12036,"date":"2025-03-11T07:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/history-isnt-entirely-repeating-itself-in-covids-aftermath\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T07:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:02:31","slug":"history-isnt-entirely-repeating-itself-in-covids-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/history-isnt-entirely-repeating-itself-in-covids-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"History Isn\u2019t Entirely Repeating Itself in Covid\u2019s Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Five years after Covid-19 shut down activities all over the world, medical historians sometimes struggle to place the pandemic in context.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What, they are asking, should this ongoing viral threat be compared with?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Is Covid like the 1918 flu, terrifying when it was raging but soon relegated to the status of a long-ago nightmare?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Is it like polio, vanquished but leaving in its wake an injured but mostly unseen group of people who suffer long-term health consequences?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Or is it unique in the way it has spawned a widespread rejection of public health advice and science itself, attitudes that some fear may come to haunt the nation when the next major illness arises?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some historians say it is all of the above, which makes Covid stand out in the annals of pandemics.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In many ways, historians say, the Covid pandemic \u2014 which the World Health Organization declared on March 11, 2020<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> \u2014<\/strong> reminds them of the 1918 flu. Both were terrifying, killing substantial percentages of the population, unlike, say, polio or Ebola or H.I.V., terrible as those illnesses were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 1918 flu killed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.cdc.gov\/www_cdc_gov\/flu\/pandemic-resources\/1918-commemoration\/1918-pandemic-history.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">675,000<\/a> people out of a U.S. population of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/demographia.com\/db-uspop1900.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">103 million<\/a>, or 65 out of every 10,000. Covid has so far killed about <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1113068\/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-place-of-death-us\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">1,135,000<\/a> Americans out of a population of 331.5 million, or 34 out of every 10,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both pandemics dominated the news every day while they raged. And both were relegated to the back of most people&#8217;s minds as the numbers of infections and deaths fell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">J. Alexander Navarro, a medical historian at the University of Michigan, said that in the fall of 1918, when the nation was in the throes of the deadliest wave of the 1918 flu, \u201cnewspapers were chock-full of stories about influenza, detailing daily case tallies, death tolls, edicts and recommendations issued by officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the next year, the virus receded. And so did the nation\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There were no memorials for flu victims, no annual days of remembrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe nation simply moved on,\u201d Dr. Navarro said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Much the same thing happened with Covid, historians say, although it took longer for the virus\u2019s harshest effects to recede.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most people live as though the threat is gone, with deaths a tiny fraction of what they once were.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the week of Feb. 15, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/covid19\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">273<\/a> Americans died of Covid. In the last week of 2021, 10,476 Americans died from Covid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Interest in the Covid vaccine has plummeted, too. Now just \u201ca measly 23 percent of adults\u201d have gotten the updated vaccine, Dr. Navarro noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Remnants of Covid remain \u2014 lasting financial effects, lags in educational achievement, casual dress, Zoom meetings, a desire to work from home. But few think of Covid as they go about their daily lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dora Vargha, a medical historian at the University of Exeter, noted that there had been no ongoing widespread effort to memorialize Covid deaths. Instead, with Covid, \u201cpeople disappeared into hospitals and never came out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now it is only their friends and families who remember.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Vargha called that response understandable. People, she said, do not want to be \u201cdragged back\u201d into memories of those Covid years.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But some, like those suffering from long Covid, can\u2019t forget. In that sense, she sees parallels with other pandemics that, unlike the 1918 flu, left a swath of people who were permanently affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People who contracted paralytic polio in the 1950s described themselves to Dr. Vargha as \u201cthe dinosaurs,\u201d reminders of the time before the vaccine, when the virus was killing or paralyzing children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Every pandemic has its dinosaurs, she said. They are the Zika babies living with microcephaly. They are the people, often at the margins of society, who develop AIDS.They are the people who contract tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But despite the pleas from those who cannot forget Covid and who seek more research, more empathy, more attention, the more pervasive attitude is, \u201cWe don\u2019t need to care anymore,\u201d said Mary Fissell, a historian at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That sounds so callous, and yet, said Dr. Barron Lerner, a historian at NYU Langone Health, in the world of public health \u201cthere are always people who are left behind \u2014 damaged or still at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s hurtful\u201d for people to be shunted aside, Dr. Lerner said. \u201cTheir lives are altered. The attention you feel their situation warrants is downplayed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But, he added, \u201con a realistic basis, there are any number of things to study.\u201d Resources are limited, he noted, adding, \u201cit can make sense to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One aspect of the Covid pandemic, though, is still with the nation, and seems to be part of a new reality: It has markedly changed attitudes toward public health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kyle Harper, a historian at the University of Oklahoma, said he would give the biomedical response to Covid an A-plus. \u201cThe rollout of vaccines was incredible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But, he said, \u201cI would give the social response a C-minus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Lerner had the same thought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Few medical experts, he said, expected so much resistance to measures like masks, quarantines, social distancing and \u2014 when they became available \u2014 vaccines and vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With Covid, he said, \u201ccompared to other pandemics, the amount of pushback to standard public health practices was remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat sets Covid apart,\u201d he said. Public health measures that had worked in the past were rejected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of the pushback was reasonable, he said, like objections to wearing masks outdoors. But the spurning of public health measures was widespread and politicized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Navarro agreed and said the contrast with 1918 was striking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn 1918, there was an abiding respect for science and medicine that seems lacking today,\u201d he said. There were pockets of resistance to measures like masking and avoiding large groups. But for the most part, he said, people complied with public health advice. And compliance was divorced from politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">World War I also played a role in the messaging, Dr. Navarro said, which may have bolstered adherence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPublic health orders and recommendations often purposely used the same language that was used to drum up support for the war effort,\u201d Dr. Navarro said. The authorities, for example, asked people \u201cto cover their coughs and sneezes so as not to gas their fellow citizens as the doughboys were being gassed by the Germans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Lerner contrasted the Covid response to the response to the polio vaccine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The polio vaccine underwent preliminary testing, and then widespread testing, in the 1950s, with broad public acceptance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With Covid, \u201cfaith in the scientific process got lost,\u201d Dr. Lerner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That does not bode well for the next pandemic, Dr. Harper said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s going to be another pandemic,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if we have to fight it without public trust, that\u2019s the worst possible response.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async 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