The past is prologue to the future, and–here we are–102 years later, in the midst of another calamitous pandemic. The Spanish Flu reached the U.S. in March of 1918; now, just after another Ides of March, the country is plagued—literally—by another deadly influenza. This one is COVID-19. We’ve come far since the Spanish Flu surprised the world a century ago; little was known about how…
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The past is prologue to the future, and–here we are–102 years later, in the midst of another calamitous pandemic. The Spanish Flu reached the U.S. in March of 1918; now, just after another Ides of March, the country is plagued—literally—by another deadly influenza. This one is COVID-19. We’ve come far since the Spanish Flu surprised the world a century ago; little was known about how…