Lessons from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic

Over the last few months in the context of COVID-19, you’ve probably been hearing vague references to the Spanish Flu of 1918, often referred to as the deadliest flu in history. It infected about one-third of the world’s population and killed tens of millions of people. Today, we’re talking to John Barry, author of The Great Influenza, to take a look back at the 1918 pandemic and what lessons we can learn from it for today. 

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