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KERNELS OF WISDOM: Remembering March 11
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Winnipeg Free Press Speiriscope By: Doug Speirs | Posted: 7:00 PM CST Friday, Jan. 22, 2021
Winnipeg Free Press
It sounds like the name of a Hollywood thriller The Hunt for Patient Zero.
The phrase patient zero has been on the minds and lips of much of the world as the search continues for the first documented human case of the COVID-19 virus that has so far claimed more than two million lives around the globe, including more than 18,000 in Canada.
According to the World Health Organization, it’s a search that may never yield an answer. We need to be careful about the use of the phrase ‘patient zero,’ which many people indicate as the first initial case, Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on COVID-19, said last week. We may never find who patient zero was. What we need to do is follow the science and follow the studies.
What Missteps During the Spanish Flu Pandemic Can Teach Us About Celebrating Christmas Safely During COVID-19
Stay home this holiday season and save the big family reunion for after the Coronavirus vaccine next year
COVID-19 is the first modern pandemic since the great influenza pandemic of 1918, commonly known as the Spanish flu. While there is considerable variation in calculations of that global death toll (estimates range from 17 to 100 million) even the lowest estimates put the fatality rate at 1% of the total global population, with higher estimates at 6%. Now that we are experiencing our own (hopefully) once-in-a-century pandemic and entering into a second wave of infections, how the US government botched Christmas during that earlier pandemic can be used as a guide to make sure we don t re-make the same mistakes this millennium.