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