Historian William Mann On How The 1918 Spanish Flu Changed Hollywood Forever & How COVID-19 Might Too

The year was 1918. As World War I was ending, the Spanish Flu began ravaging the world. Within a year, it killed 675,000 Americans and 50 million worldwide  — 10 million more than those who perished in the war. There are several parallels between the response to the Spanish Flu and COVID-19 in the U.S. […]

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