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2020-05-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

How America Brought the 1957 Influenza Pandemic to a Halt

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-17 03:18|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 At the time, people couldn’t yet cross the globe in a matter of 24 hours...

Again, the prior administration violated the principle why we had an Ellis Island, so old diseases returned to America. Too many light flickers - people who have zero understanding of why the light goes on when you flick the switch.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-17 05:55|| 2020-05-17 05:55|| Front Page Top

#2 And yet, the CDC estimates 116,000 Americans died from the 1957 flu.

Another 100,000 from the 1968 Hong Kong flu.

So, roughly double those numbers to compare to the 2020 population...

Posted by Bobby 2020-05-17 08:04|| 2020-05-17 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 the country made 40 million doses of the vaccine within months.

Pre-FDA?

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 09:52|| 2020-05-17 09:52|| Front Page Top

#4 ...power grab. I think Thalidomide opened the door for that.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-17 11:24|| 2020-05-17 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Today's FDA would put a halt to that.

Posted by Spike Grineng8188 2020-05-17 13:38|| 2020-05-17 13:38|| Front Page Top

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