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  12/16/2020

  The Bulgarian Oral History, 2020/12/16

  In this interview the interviewee wished to be anonymous. In the interview we will be interviews a gentleman from Bulgaria in Eastern Europe. He works in a for a tech company and had to move into the city to find the job away from his small hometown. He tells us what it like in the city and why he would rather be in his hometown. As well he talks how COVID-19 has affected his job and family life and life around the city. In addition, he gives on interesting perspective on how the Bulgarian government is handling the pandemic. As well as what many people in Bulgaria think of the virus such as conspiracy theories and protests not things he personally believes but what citizens around him think at times.
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  2021-12-08

  Emily Seto and Anavi Gadari Oral History, 2021/12/08

  Remembering past pandemics and comparing and contrasting them to covid-19
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  2021-12-08

  Christopher Combs, Garima Sehgal, Ore Benson Oral History, 2021/12/08

  This podcast covers the ways that learning about past pandemics has affected our attitude toward, or perception of, the current pandemic.
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  2021-12-05

  Ted and Howard Fan Oral History, 2021/12/05

  Two college students conduct this interview with each other to compare the COVID 19 pandemic with past pandemics. They discuss government response and society reaction.
• 2021-01-21

  The Syptoms

  Covid-19 has many parts to it but huge way we have been able to find out quickly if people have covid so we can quarantine them quickly is through the symptoms. Some major symptoms people might get after being exposed are Fever or chills cough Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, Fatigue, Muscle or body aches, Headache, Sore throat and Congestion or runny nose. The symptoms are also helpful because they are different from symptoms from other viruses like the flue for example. Overall without the Symptoms we would have had much more trouble with Covid-19.
• 2021-01-11

  The beginning of Covid

  When this first began, people first thought that it was this crazy thing and we should be freaking out. Yes it is a big thing, but the media is just trying to blow it up, its not that bad. At first I didn't know what caused it, I just knew that it originated in China and that some how it got brought to the U.S. I first thought when we went into lock down that it would be for like a few weeks maybe even a month. Then 2 weeks turned into a month, and a month turned into 3 months, and 3 months turned into 7 months, and now we have almost been in quarantine for a year. I thought that the virus was just like another thing like influenza (flu) because it was a season where a lot of people get sick. Over this last almost year, my opinion has changed a lot. I think that the virus started in December late November, and that it didn't immerge until late February. I now think that some how someone in China caught it in late November and didn't show any symptoms. I think they then spread it to someone who showed symptoms and then that person spread it, so on and so forth. When I found out it was a lot more like the influenza (flu) then really anything else I wasn't that surprised, but I was kind of.
• 2021-01-11

  Covid Cause

  I think that Covid-19 is simply a virus that mutated from a different common virus. I truly have no knowledge on how the virus started therefore this is a total and complete guess. I think it is possible that it evolved from something such as the flu or common cold.
• 2021-01-11

  First thoughts of covid

  When I first heard about the virus I was at school in the hallway going to Spanish. I didn't know much about it, but I remember them saying we might have to be online for a month or two, maybe even going through summer. When I got home that day I watched the news about the virus with my dad and saw details on it I originally thought it was like the flu and I turned out to be right. And when I found out that we would maybe have to wear masks wherever went, I was distraught. But I learned to live with it and shockingly we still have to nearly a year later. I don't know many people who got covid except for my aunt and her sister who had gone on a trip to Europe and got it on a plane. She lost her taste and smell for a few days and she was better in about 2 weeks and she slept in the same bed with her husband and he or her kids didn't get it. So to the average population, I believe that it's not too harmful as long as you are healthy and aren't too old.
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  2020-04-01

  Covid Origins

  I'm still not quite sure what caused Covid initially, even after almost a year. I first thought that it was just another mutation of some other virus or something else, like the flu. I didn't really give it much thought. I first saw the claim that Covid came from eating bats in China in a youtube meme video, where one of the memes implied that Covid came from animal consumption. I have seen a few other things that also say that it originated when we ate bats.
• 2021-01-11

  covid origins

  At the first thought of the virus, I wasn't sure what to think. I heard many things like "Covid came from China" and "Covid has always been around but it just got worse now" and other things like, "Covid is fake". I thought that Covid wouldn't be as bad. and that it would be something like the flu. when more and more people started dying, I realized how bad it actually was. I believe that Covid has always been around in the world. That maybe its been in our air forever and something happened for it to get to this point. Covid is not fake. it is very much here, and in the air. I also believe that Covid started in a certain point of the world and was brought to a heavily populated area and spread from there.
• 2021-01-11

  Covid Origin.

  When I first heard of Covid I didn't really think much because I was in school. It was March 13th 2020, and it was a normal Friday. I was in school and there was an announcement. COVID 19 is now in the U.S. i had no clue what it was. I just thought it was a normal flu that was carried from somewhere else. There wasn't much to explain when we heard this. The teachers wouldn't explain so I had to figure where it came from. But thats the thing. I didn't It was no where on the internet on that Friday. But, when I got home, the T.Vs starting blowing up with all the news about the new COVID 19 strand.
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  12/07/2020

  Lauren Murray Oral History, 2020/12/07

  Interview with a college student studying historical diseases about how COVID-19 compares to past pandemics. Comparison to 1918 Influenza pandemic and Black Death.
• 2020-11-20

  Interview with two healthcare workers during the pandemic

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  2020-09-19

  Spanish Influenza of 1918

  It says that history repeats itself, so instead of trying to prevent plagues, we should learn how to control them.
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  03/23/2020

  James MacLeod Oral History, 2020/03/23

  In response to COVID-19, the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science launched the mini-series, "Cultural Insights: Interviews in the Creative Sector," to highlight colleagues and professionals working in the same or similar field of museum professionals.
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  2020-03-20

  Remembering pandemics

  2009 Encyclopedia of Melbourne commentary on the Swine Flu, reflecting on the 1919 Spanish Flu epidemic and noting historical continuities and memory making.