So remember when 45 said this in May 2020 and the media ran around for days with their ugly hair on fire, screaming he was wrong?
“Who would think you could have a stock market at 24,000 after we’ve gone through the worst pandemic since 1917? That’s over 100 years,” Trump said on Wednesday, adding Thursday: “Tremendous death. It was just a terrible thing, the likes of which we haven’t seen I guess if you go back over 100 years, 1917. And that was a terrible thing.”
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Well guess what?
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Strep carriage co-infection. Hmmm!
Pretty interesting reading.
Aha, you found the tiny url place! Thanks for tiny link.
I had never heard of any of this, a couple links. And then the next year, the “Spanish” flu.
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(14)00974-6/fulltext
How the 1917 army measles epidemics changed emerging infectious disease awareness
Background: An argument can be made that if there was a “moment” in time when our response to emerging infectious diseases became recognizably modern, it may have been in 1917-1918, during the fatal measles epidemics affecting virtually all of 40 U.S. Army training camps. Previously a military disease of low incidence and low mortality, the winter of 1917 saw more than 95,000 military measles cases, and more than 3,200 deaths, with thousands more soldiers disabled by empyemas and disfiguring/debilitating thoracotomies.
Methods & Materials: Historical examination of over 200 military epidemiologic, bacteriologic, and pathologic records was undertaken.
Results: A massive Army-wide investigation involving hundreds of physicians and scientists showed that the fatal epidemic was caused by viral-bacterial co-pathogenesis associated with nasopharyngeal “carriage epidemics” of virulent streptococci. Investigations which correlated findings from clinical medicine, surgery, bacteriology, pathology, epidemiology, and the new discipline of radiology, substantially characterized the natural history and pathogenesis of the measles-streptococcal disease. Major changes in infection control practice may have slowed the epidemic. The findings of the measles epidemic investigation laid the groundwork for responding to the 1918 influenza pandemic when it appeared in September 1918, just as the measles epidemic was waning. In both epidemics, viral bacterial co-pathogenesis was responsible for the vast majority of deaths, and the measles-streptococcal prevention lessons undoubtedly lowered the tremendous mortality of the influenza pandemic with its associated pneumococcal, staphylococcal, streptococcal and other bacterial complications.
Conclusion: Implications for lowering mortality from endemic and epidemic respiratory viruses in 2014 will be discussed. The 1917 measles epidemic is among the most important emerging infectious disease epidemics of the past century because of its impact on how we investigate, evaluate and control new diseases.
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1473309915001097
A forgotten epidemic that changed medicine: measles in the US Army, 1917–18
Summary
A US army-wide measles outbreak in 1917–18 resulted in more than 95 000 cases and more than 3000 deaths. An outbreak investigation implicated measles and streptococcal co-infections in most deaths, and also characterised a parallel epidemic of primary streptococcal pneumonia in soldiers without measles. For the first time, the natural history and pathogenesis of these diseases was able to be well characterised by a broad-interdisciplinary research effort with hundreds of military and civilian physicians and scientists representing disciplines such as internal medicine, pathology, microbiology, radiology, surgery, preventive medicine, and rehabilitation medicine. A clear conceptualisation of bronchopneumonia resulting from viral–bacterial interactions between pathogens was developed, and prevention and treatment approaches were developed and optimised in real time. These approaches were used in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which began as the measles epidemic waned. The outbreak findings remain relevant to the understanding and medical management of severe pneumonia.
Wow.. very interesting! I have to finish that book on The Great Influenza. I am easily distracted by shiny things.
Petey