Old fashioned, cast iron steam radiators can turn your entire apartment into a sauna. That was the point all along.
If you have ever lived in a home with an old-fashioned, cast iron radiator, you know how quickly they can turn a home from frigid to a hellish, sweltering oven in less than half an hour. If you have, you probably flung open windows, fiddled with thermostats, or stripped down to your underwear and sweat through the night wondering how supposedly brilliant engineers managed to make a heating system so incapable of moderation.
, killing an many as 50 million people and sickening hundreds of millions more — even though you can draw a direct line between your unbearably overheated New York City apartment in 2021 and this public health crisis over a century ago.In March 1918, just as World War One was coming to its awful, bloody end. Soldiers in the United States started coming down with a relatively mild respitory illness.
By May, it is estimated that three-quarters of the French and up to half of the British troops stationed on the continent had come down with this more mild strain of H1N1. Soldiers suffered from high fevers, body aches, and other typical flu symptoms for around three days before recovering, but given the atrocious bloodshed and loss of life in the trenches, three days off the line to recover from the flu likely felt more like an answered prayer than a dangerous infection.
In the month of October 1918, 195,000 people died in the US alone, but with the war in Europe still raging, officials in the US and Europe were hesitant to put public health measures in place that could harm the war effort, leaving the civilian population at the mercy of the virus, and leaving doctors and public health officials to look for ways to stem the disease.By 1918, medicine had come a long way from the days of trying to balance the humors through bleeding and other ghastly practices.
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