New Zealand Pandemics

Lessons from History for the Future

Video

1918

An "historical fiction" showing today's COVID-19 tracking dashboard re-imagined with data from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

2020

Here is the actual COVID-19 dashboard from the Ministry of Health

2122

An "historical fiction" showing today's COVID-19 tracking dashboard re-imagined with data from an imagined outbreak 102 years in the future (COVID-2122).

Data Sources:

Death by Numbers: New Zealand Mortality Rates in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (PDF)

Te Ara: The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand - The influenza era, 1890s to 1920s

References:

Black November: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand by Geoffrey W. Rice

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling

Slide URLs:

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-current-situation/covid-19-current-cases

https://www.parliament.nz/en/get-involved/features/centenary-of-the-1918-flu-pandemic/

https://mch.govt.nz/1918-influenza-pandemic-memorial-plaque-unveiled-today

https://mch.govt.nz/significant-sites/1918-influenza-pandemic-memorial-plaque

https://discover.stqry.com/v/influenza-memorial/s/d6add63b1c06c67e48dfa74f4050a7e6

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/major-steps-taken-protect-new-zealanders-covid-19

https://www.moh.govt.nz/notebook/nbbooks.nsf/0/A1564E18AC4032A4CC2572950070FC12/$file/Death%20by%20numbers.pdf

https://ourworldindata.org/microbes-battle-science-vaccines