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Compare the flu pandemic of 1918 and COVID-19 with caution – the past is not a prediction

  • Written by Mari Webel, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
Compare the flu pandemic of 1918 and COVID-19 with caution – the past is not a predictionA pandemic from a century ago doesn't necessarily chart the course of the pandemic happening now.National Photo Company Collection/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, CC BY

People have turned to historical experience with influenza pandemics to try to make sense of COVID-19, and...

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