The Year That Was

No Cause for Panic: The Spanish Flu Pandemic



October 15th, 2019  •  43 mins 8 secs  •  Download (29.7 MB)  •  Link with Timestamp

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The emergence of the flu virus that swept the globe between 1918 and 1920 was entirely unexpected, but the resulting pandemic can't be called an entirely natural disaster. Governments made decisions that made the flu much, much worse, and those decisions would have long-lasting consequences--and leave between 50 and 100 million dead.