The Differences Between 1918 and 2020

In 1918 there was this tacit agreement between the government and the newspaper editors to keep the news of influenza epidemic off of the front page. Compare that with today where we have heard nothing other than coronavirus on the front pages of our newspapers. We can go online and see a real-time update of the number of cases worldwide, updated perhaps every 12 or 24 hours. So our reporting of the illness is very, very different today than it was in 1918.