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5 ways the world is better off dealing with a pandemic now than in 1918

  • Written by Siddharth Chandra, Professor, James Madison College and Director, Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University
imageEmergency hospital during influenza epidemic at Camp Funston in Kansas around 1918. National Museum of Health and Medicine

Near the end of the First World War, a deadly flu raced across the globe. The influenza pandemic became the most severe pandemic in recent history, infecting about one-third of the world’s population between 1918 and 1920...

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