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[Link] Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a computerised contact tracing system and screening for foreign travellers, the Guardian can reveal.
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[Link] WB Yeats, the Spanish flu and an experiment in quarantine
Read: 22/8/2021 www.irishtimes.com
WB Yeats’s December 14th, 1918 letter to New York lawyer John Quinn alludes to the dramatic impact of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 on the Yeats family.