influenza

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2020
  

  The Mask Slackers of 1918

  In 1918 and 1919, as bars, saloons, restaurants, theaters and schools were closed, masks became a scapegoat, a symbol of government overreach, inspiring protests, petitions and defiant bare-face gatherings. All the while, thousands of Americans were dying in a deadly pandemic.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5/31/2020
  

  Pandemic Historian: Don't Rush Reopening. In 1918, Some States Ran Straight Into More Death.

  by Dr. Howard Markel

  Over a decade ago, I looked at state lockdown measures during the 1918 influenza pandemic. My takeaway: Longer is better than shorter.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/26/2020
  

  America’s Response to Coronavirus Pandemic is ‘Incomprehensibly Incoherent,’ Says Historian Who Studied the 1918 Flu

  According to historian John M. Barry, Americans have not learned their lesson since 1918.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/24/2020
  

  Reopening too Soon: Lessons from the Deadly Second Wave of the 1918 Flu Pandemic

  J. Alexander Navarro of the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine has compiled archival records of the 1918 Influenza pandemic in 43 U.S. cities. The findings suggest staying closed helps prevent a deadly second wave of infections.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/17/2020
  

  She Posed as a Nurse During the 1918 Flu Pandemic and Went on a Crime Spree

  Julia Lyons preyed on the sick and dying in Chicago.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/14/2020
  

  Why Are There Almost No Memorials to the Flu of 1918?

  Historians have accounted for how the influenza pandemic unfolded across the US and the world, but have been less successful accounting for why the disease seems to have been forgotten.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/3/2020
  

  The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Millions. So Why Does Its Cultural Memory Feel So Faint?

  by Rebecca Onion

  According to scholar Elizabeth Outka, the tragedy haunts modernist literature between the lines.

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• 5/3/2020
  

  The Second Battle of Gettysburg: Eisenhower’s Fight with the 1918 Flu Pandemic

  by Jack M. Holl

  Dwight Eisenhower played a pivotal role in protecting the troops under his command and the civilians living around Camp Colt in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania from the 1918 influenza pandemic. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/28/2020
  

  First the Women Who Ran This U.K. Military Hospital Faced World War I. Then Came the 1918 Flu Pandemic

  In her new book "No Man's Land," Wendy Moore recounts the story of the women who ran the Endell Street Military Hospital, a London hospital staffed almost entirely by women during the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak.

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• 4/26/2020
  

  Teaching During a Pandemic – a Century Ago

  by John Marsh

  In letters the author's grandmother wrote to her beau in the Army between 1918 and 1919, the flu was a constant subject. 

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  4/18/2020
  

  How The Spanish Flu of 1918-20 was Largely Forgotten

  The Economist under-reported the pandemic. Many victims were counted among the dead of the first world war.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  4/13/2020
  

  What We Can Learn from 1918 Influenza Diaries

  Historians including Kevin Levin, Nancy Bristow and Lora Vogt reflect on what people today can do to help historians of the future understand life during the COVID crisis. 

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• 4/12/2020
  

  The Local Impact of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Philadelphia

  by Jeffrey Anderson and Janet Golden

  Insufficient attention was paid to the first influenza death in the city. The United States was in the throes of the Great War, and the Kaiser, not the flu, was on the minds of Philadelphians.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/2/2020
  

  Everyone Wore Masks During The 1918 Flu Pandemic. They Were Useless.

  In 1918, with a different virus, masks didn’t help.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/2020
  

  Comfort From a 102-Year-Old Who has Lived Through a Flu Pandemic, the Depression and WWII

  But what Ellson wants people to know—“if I can preach for a minute,” she requested with a laugh—is that this, like everything else, will pass.

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• SOURCE: The Undefeated
  4/1/2020
  

  In 1918 and 2020, Race Colors America’s Response to Epidemics

  Race and ethnicity have been, and continue to be, enormous factors in determining whether people will receive medical attention when they become ill, and the sort of attention they will receive.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  3/27/2020
  

  'You Must Wash Properly.' Newspaper Ads From the 1918 Flu Pandemic Show Some Things Never Change

  While the 1918 flu and COVID-19 are different diseases, newspaper advertisements from 1918 show that, in some ways, the two moments are strikingly similar.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  3/16/2020
  

  This Isn’t the First Time a Virus Caused Social Panic. The Spanish Flu Did Too

  by Gustavo Arellano

  Through letters, newspaper clippings, city council minutes, diaries, and photos, these collections offer lessons from the past that historians say can teach people today about how to confront coronavirus.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/29/2020
  

  Trump is Ignoring the Lessons of 1918 Flu Pandemic that Killed Millions, Historian Says

  “I think the No. 1 lesson that came out of the experience is that if you want to prevent panic, you tell the truth.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/28/19
  

  Zombie flu: How the 1919 influenza pandemic fueled the rise of the living dead

  by Elizabeth Outka

   The rise of the living dead, though, has a surprising link to another recurring October visitor: the influenza virus.