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In 1918, human­i­ty faced a dead­ly glob­al pan­dem­ic– the Span­ish Flu. The CDC esti­mates that the dis­ease killed at least 50 mil­lion peo­ple, and infect­ed a third of the worlds population.

Today, hand­wash­ing and phys­i­cal dis­tanc­ing are a part of dai­ly life, as are grim tal­lies of the sick and the dead.

Even though sci­ence has made tremen­dous advances since then, our meth­ods for slow­ing the spread of the nov­el Coro­n­avirus are very sim­i­lar to those used 100 years ago.

With­in the social and polit­i­cal cli­mate of 1918, we will exam­ine how the peo­ple who lived a cen­tu­ry before us respond­ed to the cri­sis of a glob­al pan­dem­ic. There were impor­tant and encour­ag­ing lessons to be learned then about pre­ven­tion and readi­ness, as there are today from COVID-19.

Fea­tur­ing:

Lau­ra Spin­ney, sci­ence jour­nal­ist and author of Pale Rid­er: The Span­ish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World.