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Encore: What We Learned from Fighting the Spanish Flu | 1
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In light of growing concerns about the coronavirus, we’re revisiting an episode we ran last spring.
One hundred years ago, the Spanish flu pandemic forever reshaped the way the United States responds to public health crises. At a time when people around the world were already dying on an unprecedented scale due to World War I, Spanish flu devastated American cities, killing more than 675,000 people in the U.S. alone. The virus had a profound effect on impact on medicine, politics, and the media, revealing deep flaws in the U.S. government’s ability to respond to such a disaster. But it would also lead to the creation of new public health institutions that still endure today, and it would help usher in a new era of global collaboration in the medical community.
For more information about the coronavirus, visit the following websites:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
World Health Organization:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
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