How the 1918 flu pandemic ended
Explain It to Me
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Before covid the biggest disease outbreak in modern memory was the 19 eigeteen, 19 19 flue outbreak. It wound up killing millions of people around the world and forcing civilians into quarantines. John m barry is a distinguished scholar at tulane who wrote two thousand four s: The epic story of the greatest plague in history. i wanted to get a sense of what we can learn from that experience, and see what it could mean for us as we grope for of covid.
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