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Researchers are closing in on long Covid
- js2 6y ago> IN THE 1890s one of the biggest pandemics in history, known at the time as “Russian flu”, swept the world. It left 1m people dead. Russian flu is now thought to have been misnamed. It was probably not influenza, but rather a coronavirus. I don't see how this article can say "probably" without so much as a citation. It is at best, from my understanding, a "maybe": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_pandemic#Identification_of_virus_subtype_responsible https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_pandemic#I...