Spanish Flu

Vaccine to Vaccination: Lessons from Spanish Flu pandemic in dealing with COVID-19 crisis

There may be some lessons and inspiration that we and our scientific community can draw from the horrors of the Spanish Flu

Reading Mrs Dalloway: How Virginia Woolf wrote illness and isolation into the national story of post war Britain

Mrs Dalloway is a text that shows how memory and mourning work to uphold the values of the British Empire. Its attention on how emotions circulate between people allows us to understand how national structures of feeling are created through newspapers and through the orchestration of symbolic identifications.

In an era of coexistence, US should draw wisdom from its syncretic culture rather than seeking to segregate immigrant communities

While it is every country’s duty to protect itself from illegal immigrants and the scourge of terrorism, the present US embargo rationale is through the prism of the pandemic which it has repeatedly downplayed.

Coronavirus pandemic: A systems approach to mitigate the social and economic fallout of COVID-19

We are living in the time of a pandemic that although unique to our generation, mimics the one exactly a century ago. Not only is the pandemic triggered by a respiratory virus, its effect on both human health and livelihoods is similarly astronomical — bringing the wheels of the economy to a halt

Coronavirus Outbreak: 100 years later, we are staring at another pandemic, with masks on and no vaccine in sight

Conspiracy theorists have blamed COVID-19 on the development of 5G networks, just as they say radio waves caused the 1918 flu.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Governments knew a pandemic was a threat – here's why they weren't better prepared

Every country needs to understand and learn from how others are analysing, planning and have dealt with similar emergencies in the past.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Led by Himanta Biswa Sarma, Assam medical fraternity takes a leap of faith in fight against COVID-19

Everyone in the country is nervous, only that people like Jenita Baruah, Dhiraj Pathak, Arun Kumar Konwar, Swapna Bhumic Das, Ratnawati Doley and many other unknown faces from the medical fraternity are braver than the rest.

Coronavirus pandemic: How 'flattening the curve' can ease burden on healthcare systems, minimise impact

The concept of "flattening the curve" assumes importance as a way to ensure that the healthcare system can better deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

Amid economic slowdown caused by coronavirus, a look at lessons history offers about governance during pandemics

As concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus have translated into an economic slowdown, a look back at history can help us consider the economic effects of public health emergencies and how best to manage them.