What We Can Learn Today From The 1918 Flu Pandemic
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National Museum of Health and Medicine
Beds with patients in an emergency hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, during the 1918 influenza epidemic.
The 1918 flu pandemic was one of the worst in human history. It killed an estimated 50 million people — and that’s on the low end. Adjusted for population, that would add up to 220 million people dead today.
And, when it hit Phoenix, people came up with novel ways of trying to protect themselves as local governments instituted a quarantine that lasted about six weeks.
So, what can we learn from what we experienced over a century ago?
For more on that, The Show got a hold of ASU history professor Eduardo Pagán.
