According to the article’s research, COVID-19 may weaken immunity, making it more challenging for patients to fight off new infections once they have recovered. Research in Frontiers in Immunology suggests COVID-19 can lower immune cell counts, particularly T and B cells (Park, 2023). Experts in immunology and infectious illnesses offer their thoughts on the results in the article’s comments. Using an article on COVID-19 as an example, this research seeks to determine how historical events have shaped the world we live in now.
The COVID-19 pandemic may be seen as a significant historical event that historians may examine as an example of a global health catastrophe and its impact on civilization. Also, it may be understood in light of other major pandemics in American history, such as the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–1919, and how the country responded to them (Morens et al., 2021). Political reactions to prior public health crises, such as the SARS outbreak in 2002–2004 and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, have influenced those to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Great Depression and the 2008 financial crisis have affected the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic impacts.
Some historical occasions, figures, and documents influenced the COVID-19 era. One historical example frequently used to contrast the pandemic is the Spanish influenza outbreak of 1918–19. (Morens et al., 2021). Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US government’s top public health advisor during the COVID-19 epidemic, is another significant figure (Sánchez-Vallejo, 2022). The government enacted the CARES Act in March 2020 to provide financial aid to those impacted by the epidemic.
In my opinion, this event will encourage telecommuting in different areas and rethink US medical funding to improve healthcare services. Most countries will fund more research on viral diseases to reduce the risk of another pandemic respiratory virus. The article emphasizes, from my perspective, how critical it is to keep studying the virus and create plans of action in case of a pandemic. Humanity’s unwillingness or inadequate understanding of historical events contributed to the second great epidemic. The Chinese government first kept quiet about the virus’s genesis and development to contain the pandemic and avoid drawing attention to the country’s issues. As military censorship during the war forbade warnings of the potential illness of big military forces, the same Spanish influenza pandemic broke out in 1918. The fact that other nations were unaware of the new illness prevented previous research from developing a cure.
References
Morens, D. M., Taubenberger, J. K., & Fauci, A. S. (2021). A centenary tale of two pandemics: The 1918 influenza pandemic and COVID-19, part I. American Journal of Public Health, 111(6), 1086–1094. Web.
Park, A. (2023). Getting COVID-19 could weaken your immune system. Time. Web.
Sánchez-Vallejo, M. A. (2022). Anthony fauci, coronavirus pandemic hero and republican foe. EL PAÍS English. Web.