Young adults were the most vulnerable group to the 1918–1919 Spanish flu, the history’s deadliest pandemic that claimed about 50 million lives. Epidemiological observations suggest …
In 1919, during the second phase of the flu, baseball started amid the virus. At that time, the Allentown Morning Call reported on March 3, …
(via Smithsonian Magazine) Starting in 1918, as the Bay Area suffered through the flu pandemic, Californians crafted masks of gauze, an open-weave fabric perhaps hard-pressed …
As the contagion moved into its second year, so did the mask skepticism. On Dec. 17, 1918, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors reinstituted the …
The Pittsburgh Daily POST reported this on December 13, 1918: Branding Influenza Mask as ‘fake’ splits Health Conference. Fake news today. Fake news then. The …
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that city prisons swelled to standing-room-only; police shifts and court sessions were added to help manage the arrests. “Where is …
On March 4, 1918 at the Fort Riley, Kansas military base, the first outbreaks in the US were reported. On October 1, 1918, the U.S. Surgeon General, Rupert …
