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When reading this article, I kept thinking about various things I've read about the aftermath of the 1918-1919 pandemic. Time magazine did a nice piece about that in Dec 2020. (https://time.com/5915616/long-flu-1918-pandemic/) One snippet: " In what is now Tanzania...post-viral syndrome has been blamed for triggering the worst famine in a century—the so-called “famine of corms”—after debilitating lethargy prevented flu survivors from planting when the rains came at the end of 1918."

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