Dispatches from 1918
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Wilson's Symptoms of the 1918 Flu
President Wilson was in Paris trying to put an end to the Great War. The flu had been rampaging, but he never spoke of it publicly. Historian Margaret points out like we truly can't know. It could have been more than a cold. But for John who wrote a whole book about the 1918 flu,. He's like a lot of the classic symptoms were there. And also this one peculiar symptom: mental disorder.
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