Lost common sense: How America lived through the Asian flu of 1957

[RoshawnMarkwees]

How the 1957 Flu Pandemic Was Stopped Early in Its Path | HISTORY

By the time the virus reached the U.S., the country already had a vaccine ready.

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70,000 to 116,000 died in the estimate, in the USA

Fortunately, we had some great, persistent scientists who had a Flu vaccine ready, by September 1957, the month this flu first hit the U.S.

And they had the insight to know the flu in Asia in January would be a pandemic and hit the USA by the Fall of 1957.

Influenza vaccinations were created in the 1940's, so in 1957 they had the experience and knowledge of how to make the vaccine...

Holy Toledo, that was one deadly flu, considering we had a vaccine by the time it reached the US....

BUT as they say, vaccines do not save lives, vaccinations do.... And it takes time and supplies and a willing populous, to get people vaccinated.

The Corona virus, any form of it, not just COVID 19, has never had a vaccine created for it, that works.... So we are in a worse position than they were in 1957....

A corona virus is NOT an Influenza virus, and this is more difficult...

And this corona virus, has no 'season' where it slows down or dies off, like an influenza virus....

Your numbers omit adjustments due to population and over-75 population. Very important factors.
What’s more, a vaccine’s purpose is to enhance herd immunity. Given the severity of 1957 in spite of available vaccine, we had a much more serious situation then than we have now with Wuhan.
No lockdowns then, so why now? It’s obvious that lockdowns delay the process and likely exacerbate the problem.

I can’t imagine how bad COVID would have been in 1957. Many of today’s survivors are only here because of leaps in technology since the.

Not really. Most survivors got that way naturally. We have way more obesity and diabetes now.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

Country didn't shut the hell down then or in 1968.........

Doctor.......the man has an ear ache.......

Let's cut the foot off.........he'll feel better..........What we have today......the economic carnage is coming....now that the gov't tit is drying up.......which will be worse than the dang virus.......But IT'S ELECTION YEAR.

pfft.

No, the Nation did not shut down. The isolated it quickly. In 11 days, it was completely isolated and those affected, carrying or had been in contact had been isolated. Obama didn't invent the method. You have to go back a couple of hundred years to find the creator. Had the same thing been done (it is in the Pandemic Book passed on to Rump) when it was at 15 cases, it could have been isolated and the US would not be the World Leader in Covid 19 Pandemic Distribution. During the H1N1, those countries that had it were barred from entry into the US until those countries got a handle on it. While Rump doesn't own the Covid 19, he does own the nation wide Pandemic.

And it won't be any better come November since Rump still won't take it serious enough. And almost everything he's done lately has been trying to take the pressure off him. I can't wait to see his next "Here, hold my beer" moment.