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Spanish Flu
March 10, 2022
Eleanor Cummins
The Story of the Spanish Flu Ended Before the Virus Did. The Same Is Happening With the Covid Pandemic.
This isn’t the first time society has struggled to make sense of the long tail of a pandemic.
March 31, 2020
Walter Shapiro
How America’s Newspapers Covered Up a Pandemic
The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu

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