Influenza 1918

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In the spring of 1918, as the nation mobilized for war, Private Albert Gitchell reported to an army hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, a disease doctors knew little about. Before the year was out, America would be ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 — more than in all the wars of the 20th century combined — before disappearing as mysteriously as it began. This was the deadliest epidemic in American history until COVID-19 which has now surpassed the number who died from the 1918 flu.

While Watching:

1. What was the early response to the flu by authorities?
2. How did World War I factor into the spread of the flu?
3. What kind of remedies did Americans turn to do cure or protect themselves from flu? Were they effective?
4. How did the flu impact the American economy and social interaction?