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The 1918 influenza pandemic (Spanish Flu) infected one-third (500 million) of the world's population (then 1.8 billion) & killed 50 million.

With such a high mortality rate this acute infectious disease took its toll, erasing from existence nearly 3% of all people on Earth.

This "long flu," an echo of sorts of the Spanish Flu epidemic itself, has its parallel in long COVID today - a similar cluster of symptoms that persist in those who were previously infected with COVID-19.

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

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The medical establishment calls this condition post-acute infection syndrome (PAIS).

We now have a plethora of information suggesting that COVID-19 is the latest addition to the list of infections spawning post-acute infection syndrome; that is, "long COVID."

According to the CDC, in June 2022, almost one in five American adults who had COVID-19 still had long COVID.

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

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Long COVID is affecting more people than we likely know.

And it eerily parallels other post-acute infection syndrome scenarios throughout history, including those potentially linked to epidemics of Parkinsonism. Hence, the threat of long COVID could lead to a future public health catastrophe, much as the "long" effects of the Spanish Flu did a hundred years ago.j