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PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON COVID-19

Written by HIROSHI MASHIMO, MD PHD Posted April 15, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Lessons to prepare, grieve, console, help, learn, teach, and unite

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Harvard Medical School, Health, Hiroshi Mashimo, HIV, influenza, mask, medicine, N95, Op-Ed, opinion, pandemic, science, slider, social distancing, VA Boston Healthcare System, wash your hands

FILM REVIEW: “INFLUENZA”

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted February 23, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Review: Influenza
Directed by Bong Joon Ho. South Korea, 2004, 27 min.

Available for rental or purchase at Grasshopperfilm.com.

If the Parasite (2019) sweep of this year’s Academy Awards has compelled you to see other movies by the great Bong Joon Ho, you’ll gladly find that it won’t require too much legwork. Each of Bong’s six previous ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Bong Joon-ho, incoherence, influenza, parasite, shaking tokyo, tokyo!

GET A GRIPPE: THE FLU HIT BOSTON EXTREMELY HARD 100 YEARS AGO

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted February 19, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Flash back to 100 years ago, when the Spanish flu epidemic was similarly worrying Americans. With vaccine developments not nearly as ubiquitous as they are in 2018, many Boston-area doctors relied on pseudoscience and, out of both desperation and ignorance, said and did whatever they could to tame an ongoing public outrage about flu deaths.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Dirty Old Boston, flu, history, influenza, Massachusetts, throwback

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