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...Theater, Sunken Garden, Radcliffe Yard12:15 p.m.Japanese Tea CeremonyTea Room, 5 Bryant St1 p.m.South Indian Classical MusicHolden Chapel (between Lionel and Mower)1 p.m.Dunster House Opera ShowcaseDudley House, Lehman Hall1 p.m.“At Ease,”Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St1 p.m.Harpsichord Music from the Spanish CourtMemorial Church1 p.m.Stand-Up Comedy JamCambridge Queen’s Head1 p.m.Fallen Angels A Cappella Jam, Science Center C1 p.m.Harvard Organ Society, Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St1 p.m.Debussy’s Prelude d’Après-midi d’une FaunePaine Hall1 p.m.John Williams: Heroic Masterpieces...
What works better are social-distancing actions on a local level - closing schools, having employees work at home and limiting public gatherings, where the flu can spread easily. Such methods worked during the deadly 1918 Spanish flu - cities that acted quickly to close schools and theaters early in the pandemic had peak death rates 50% lower than cities that acted more slowly. Today doctors could also prophylactically administer antiviral drugs to the close contacts of any swine flu patients, a strategy that has been shown to help prevent the spread of the flu. "Until you start to see really massive...
...latest pandemics, in 1957 and 1968, were mild, with global death tolls of about 2 million and 1 million, respectively. But doctors live in fear of a killer like the 1918 Spanish flu, which caused up to 100 million deaths. Undertakers were so overwhelmed that corpses were left inside homes for days. Cities passed laws requiring citizens to wear masks in public places, but the virus defeated that barrier; little stemmed the spread of the disease. From 1917 to 1918, average life expectancy in the U.S. dropped an amazing 12 years. Cruelly, the 1918 virus was particularly lethal in young...
...Spanish-flu pandemic ended only when the virus had infected so many people that it burned itself out. Today, doctors have better tools--antivirals and respirators--that would cut the potential death toll. But influenza is unpredictable. "There's no standard picture for how this develops," says Keiji Fukuda, a top World Health Organization official. We can prepare, but in the end, we're at the mercy of a virus...
...Perhaps the most accurate portion (not for FlyBy but for at least one of his roommates), "I love getting up in 4:30am and going to class until 7:00 at night then having to write papers and study for Spanish. It's awesome...