Spanish flu

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  5/19/2020
  

  Warren Harding Tried to Return America to ‘Normalcy’ After WWI and the 1918 Pandemic. It Failed.

  by William Deverell

  The lessons from his presidency show that a quick retreat to the past can be just a mirage.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  5/19/2020
  

  A Complete Halt to the Liquor Traffic: Drink and Disease in the 1918 Epidemic

  by E. Thomas Ewing

  The most influential organization advocating for prohibition, the WCTU pressed for ratification of the 18th Amendment banning the sale of alcohol as influenza raged in 1918. But their celebration was short-lived.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/28/2020
  

  How the Spanish Flu Almost Upended Women's Suffrage

  Canceled rallies. A looming election. A stretched health care system with a predominantly female face. Women’s frustrations then resonate loud and clear today.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  4/18/2020
  

  Miracle ‘Coronavirus Cures’ Haven’t Changed in 700 Years

  by Jennifer Wright

  The many bizarre "cures" for the coronavirus circulating online are nothing new. Rather, they have a lineage that stretches back to the bubonic plague.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/5/2020
  

  Why We Keep Getting the Lessons of the Spanish Flu Wrong

  by Kevin Peraino

  History matters in a crisis like this, but not the way most people use it.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/25/2020
  

  Historian John Barry on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Influenza of 1918

  In this video historian John M. Barry outlines the comparison between the influenza epidemic of 1918 and the coronavirus.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/21/2020
  

  The Lessons of the Elections of 1918

  A nation ravaged by the Spanish flu figured out how to vote back then. Not without incident, but with democracy intact.

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• SOURCE: Futurism
  3/10/2020
  

  In The Coronavirus, Historians See Echoes of Past Pandemics

  Science has progressed, sure, but leaders have ignored other lessons, argues historian Graham Mooney.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/10/2020
  

  Coronavirus: The Case for Canceling Everything

  by Yascha Mounk

  Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus. We must start immediately.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-30-18
  

  1918 Brought an Armistice, but Also a World of Death

  A century ago, the war to end war came to an end. At the same time, Russia endured a vicious civil war, and the flu killed more people than all the battlefields of World War I.

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• 11-7-17
  

  The Spanish Flu Killed More Than 50 Million People, but We’re Only Now Beginning to Recognize How Devastating It Was

  by Laura Spinney

  This is why that is.

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• SOURCE: Nature
  2-16-14
  

  Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemic

  Model also links avian influenza strains to deadly horse flu.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  2-10-14
  

  Mark Humphries: China epicenter of 1918 flu epidemic, not U.S.

  Humphries writes that victims of a mysterious respiratory disease that broke out in northern China in November 1917.