Abstract
In the past 100 years, the world has faced four distinctly different pandemics: the Spanish flu of 1918-1919, the SARS pandemic of 2003, the H1N1 or “swine flu” pandemic of 2012, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Each public health crisis exposed specific systemic shortfalls and provided public health lessons for future events. The Spanish flu revealed a nursing shortage and led to a great appreciation of nursing as a profession. SARS showed the importance of having frontline clinicians be able to work with regulators and those producing guidelines. H1N1 raised questions about the nature of a global organization such as the World Health Organization in terms of the benefits and potential disadvantages of leading the fight against a long-term global public health threat. In the era of COVID-19, it seems apparent that we are learning about both the blessing and curse of social media.
Original language | English (US) |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 1-5 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Signa Vitae |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Coronavirus
- Pandemics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Emergency Medicine
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine