It's not a stretch to say that the coronavirus pandemic is an historic event, but it's not without precedent. Epidemics have been a part of human history for as long as people have gathered together. So it's not uncommon to look back in order to plot a path forward.

On this episode of This Is Why, we look back at how pandemic influenza affected a western Canadian city in 1918.

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Guests:

Suzanna Wagner, health historian

Episode Resources:

The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada by Mark Osborne Humphries