Ôn lại đại dịch 1918 - Tội "Cứng Đầu"

by 8DonCo Sun Mar 15, 2020 2:29 pm

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How the Spanish flu hit Philadelphia

In September 1918, Philadelphia held a planned Liberty Loan Parade to promote the government bonds that were being issued to pay for World War I.

But the parade took place when the pandemic commonly called the "Spanish flu" -- the H1N1 virus -- arrived in the city of 1.7 million people.

The virus swept the world between 1918 and 1919. About a third of the entire world's population -- about 500 million people at the time -- were infected with the virus, and about 50 million died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There was no vaccine against the virus.

At first, the virus was just in Spain, where 80% of the population was affected. The virus seemed far away.

It didn't reach the US until the spring of 1918, among military personnel, the CDC says. As US troops came home from World War I, cases popped up in cities like Boston.
The virus spread to Philadelphia on September 19, 1918, through the Philadelphia Navy Yard, according to information from the University of Pennsylvania Archives & Records Center. In a matter of days, 600 sailors had the virus.

Yet Philadelphia didn't cancel its Liberty Loan Parade, scheduled for just a little more than a week later. Meant to be a patriotic wartime effort, the parade went on as scheduled on September 28, bringing 200,000 Philadelphians together.

By October 1, there were 635 new cases of the virus in Philadelphia, according to UPenn.
Philadelphia was one of the hardest-hit US cities. More than 12,000 people died in six weeks, with about 47,000 reported cases, according to UPenn. By the six-month mark, about 16,000 had died and there were more than half a million cases.

The Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cites the Philadelphia parade as an example of what not to do during a pandemic. St. Louis canceled its parade while Philadelphia did not. In the end, the death toll in St. Louis did not rise above 700, according to the CDC.

"This deadly example shows the benefit of canceling mass gatherings and employing social distancing measures during pandemics," the CDC said.

In the US, about 675,000 people died of the 22 million who caught the flu.
So, as more and more US cities cancel their St. Patrick's Day parades, or other events, it may be useful to look to Philadelphia in 1918. If this even shows us anything, it's that these cancellations can save lives.

by DocThatKinh Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:53 pm

Năm nay Montréal's St. Patrick's Parade ko biết có bỏ ko? Chưa thấy để cancelled. Mọi năm đông ơi là đông.
Hội chợ hoa lan cuối tháng 3 ở trường Maisonneuve bị cancelled rồi.

by May4phuong Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:55 pm

Dĩ nhiên mà mọi thứ vui chơi, tụ tập đông người bị cancel hết, ngay cả cuối tháng 5 mấy trường học không biết có làm lễ graduation không nữa .

by KatN Sun Mar 15, 2020 4:02 pm

May4phuong wrote:Dĩ nhiên mà mọi thứ vui chơi, tụ tập đông người bị cancel hết, ngay cả cuối tháng 5 mấy trường học không biết có làm lễ graduation không nữa .

UCIrvine in CA hôm qua announced là sẽ cancel lễ ra trường tháng 6 rồi nè chị

by May4phuong Sun Mar 15, 2020 4:04 pm

Vậy cũng tội nghiệp tụi nhỏ ha, học cả năm trông chờ có lễ tốt nghiệp ...

by DocThatKinh Sun Mar 15, 2020 4:07 pm

Hãng tui cho mọi người WFH rồi.

by chongxa Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:31 pm

KatN wrote:
May4phuong wrote:Dĩ nhiên mà mọi thứ vui chơi, tụ tập đông người bị cancel hết, ngay cả cuối tháng 5 mấy trường học không biết có làm lễ graduation không nữa .

UCIrvine in CA hôm qua announced là sẽ cancel lễ ra trường tháng 6 rồi nè chị

thông báo có quá sớm không?? còn mấy tháng lận mà

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Ôn lại đại dịch 1918 - Tội "Cứng Đầu"