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15 Minute History – The “Spanish” Influenza of 1918-1920

Guest: Dr. Christopher Rose, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Host: Augusta Dell’Omo, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin

In the age of coronavirus and COVID-19, comparisons are being made to an unusually long-lived and virulent epidemic of influenza that occurred a century ago. The so-called “Spanish” flu went around the world in three waves, claiming more than fifty million lives–more than perished in the just-ended First World War. What was the Spanish flu? Why was it called that? And can we learn anything about what’s in store during the coronavirus pandemic of 2019-20 by casting our eyes back a century?

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