History: epidemics and pandemics of the past, including the 1918 flu, others

Important public health lessons from the Civil War became mainstream 20th century practices. Then many of them fell by the wayside. (2021)

How U.S. city officials responded to the Spanish flu played a critical role in how many residents lived—and died. (2020)

The fear is similar, but the medical reality is not. (2020)

The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the Unite... (2020)

Social distancing isn’t a new idea—it saved thousands of American lives during the last great pandemic. Here's how it worked. (2020)

A heroic community effort at a daring hospital saved lives, led to today’s ventilators and revolutionized medicine — it holds lessons for our times... (2020)

We've only made vaccines for so many diseases. Let's look at the history. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. (2020)

The first strain of the Spanish Flu wasn’t particularly deadly. Then it came back in the fall with a vengeance. 1. Virus Killed the Young, Old a... (2020)

As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. (2020)