History Friday: Pandemic

COVID isn’t the first time a vaccine was rapidly developed to fight a disease. All precious pandemics were referred to as “flu” variants. You probably know about 1918, but we had flu pandemics in 1957-1958, 1968, and 2009. This CDC website has descriptions of each along with what age group was targeted: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html The really […]