The Smallpox Epidemics in America in the 1700s and the Role of the Surgeons: Lessons to be Learned During the Global Outbreak of COVID-19

Today’s COVID-19 pandemic offers many similarities with previous pandemics hitting our country. In particular, the smallpox epidemics during the 1700s threatened the lives of multitudes and created panic and fear in the society, similar to the situation caused by the coronavirus. Remedies that were...

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Published in:World journal of surgery 2020-09, Vol.44 (9), p.2837-2841
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Abdominal Surgery
Aggression
Betacoronavirus
Cardiac Surgery
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Disease Outbreaks - history
Epidemics
General Surgery
History, 18th Century
Humans
Immunization - history
Inoculation
Mass Vaccination - history
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Outbreaks
Pandemics
Physician's Role
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2
Smallpox
Smallpox - epidemiology
Smallpox - history
Surgeons
Surgery
Surgical History
Thoracic Surgery
United States - epidemiology
Vascular Surgery
Viral diseases
War
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