Down memory lane: Unprecedented strong public and scientific interest in the "Spanish flu" 1918/1919 during the COVID-19 pandemic

Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2021 Mar;15(2):318-319. doi: 10.1111/irv.12806. Epub 2020 Sep 18.

Authors

Kaspar Staub^{1

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3

4}, Joël Floris^{1

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5}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
² Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Institute of History, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Digital Society Initiative (DSI), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of History, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / psychology
Humans
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype
Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919 / statistics & numerical data*
Influenza, Human / epidemiology
Influenza, Human / virology
Information Seeking Behavior
Information Storage and Retrieval / trends
SARS-CoV-2

Grants and funding

Mäxi Foundation