As people try to wrap their heads around the COVID-19 pandemic, historians are pointing towards a different pandemic: the 1918 flu outbreak. Here’s the story of why that disease <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/mutter-museum-is-reviving-a-1918-philly-parade-that-sparked-a-killer-flu-outbreak-2/">hit Philadelphia especially hard</a>, and what we can take from it today.
Guest: Robert Hicks, scholar and historian at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

As people try to wrap their heads around the COVID-19 pandemic, historians are pointing towards a different pandemic: the 1918 flu outbreak. Here’s the story of why that disease hit Philadelphia especially hard, and what we can take from it today. Guest: Robert Hicks, scholar and historian at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

As people try to wrap their heads around the COVID-19 pandemic, historians are pointing towards a&nbsp;different&nbsp;pandemic: the 1918 flu outbreak. Here’s the story of why that disease <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/mutter-museum-is-reviving-a-1918-philly-parade-that-sparked-a-killer-flu-outbreak-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer">hit Philadelphia especially hard</a>, and what we can take from it today.
Guest: Robert Hicks, scholar and historian at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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There’s more to every story, if you take the time to tell it. Get to the “why” behind the issues that matter in the Greater Philadelphia region with hosts Annette John-Hall and Shai Ben-Yaacov. Each episode, they’ll pluck one local story from your feed and break it down.

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