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People gave up on flu pandemic measures a century ago when they tired of them – and paid a price

  • Written by J. Alexander Navarro, Assistant Director of the Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan
imageArmistice Day celebrations on Nov. 11, 1918, worried public health experts as people crowded together in cities across the U.S.AP Photo

Picture the United States struggling to deal with a deadly pandemic.

State and local officials enact a slate of social-distancing measures, gathering bans, closure orders and mask mandates in an effort to stem the...

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