The Deeper Dig

How Fletcher escaped the 1918 flu


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Fletcher, Vermont, is one of the 116 towns in the state that haven’t registered any Covid-19 cases so far. But public health researchers have singled it out for another reason: it was one of just a handful of communities in the country that avoided the deadly flu pandemic of 1918. And they want to know whether it holds lessons for today.

Guests: Alex Navarro (University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine)

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