The Influenza Epidemic and the Pandemic

Nancy bristol is a historian at the university of puget sound and the author of american pandemic, the lost wirlds of the nineteen eighteen influenza epidemic. She began by talking about the scale of that outbreak. This was a massive event. Inside the united states, more than a quarter ofAmericans were sickened. By the time the pandemic was through, six hundred and seventy five thousand Americans would die. The estimates vary for the world, for somewhere between fifty and one hundred million people. A third of people on the globe were likely infected....