Politics may have played a role in increasing the death toll during the 1918 Influenza pandemic in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Retired UMKC medical librarian and R.N. Susan Sykes Berry joins Haley to explain the city's "dysfunctional" response to the pandemic due to its political boss system.

Politics may have played a role in increasing the death toll during the 1918 Influenza pandemic in Kansas City, Missouri. Retired UMKC medical librarian and R.N. Susan Sykes Berry joins Haley to explain the city's "dysfunctional" response to the pandemic due to its political boss system.

51 - Echoes of 1918: Pendergast's Pandemic

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51 - Echoes of 1918: Pendergast's Pandemic

51 - Echoes of 1918: Pendergast's Pandemic