Behind the Lines

Episode 2: Pandemic


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This episode features letters written during and about the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 and 1919, especially as it affected World War I. (More American troops were killed in WWI by the disease than in combat.) The podcast ends with a powerful letter by a New York doctor from the current (2020) pandemic to show the parallels with the one that occurred a century ago.

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Behind the LinesBy Barbara Harrison & Andrew Carroll

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