Wired

History Says the 1918 Flu Killed the Young and Healthy. These Bones Say Otherwise

In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of ...
Time

Lessons From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on How to Celebrate the Holidays Amid COVID-19

Staff Writer On Dec. 14, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reached a grim, new milestone: 300,000 Americans killed. That’s nearly half of the 675,000 Americans killed a century ago during the 1918 flu ...
Health Affairs

Measuring Mortality In The Pandemics Of 1918–19 And 2020–21

With the United States hitting the grim milestone of almost 550,000 deaths from COVID-19 and increasing public recognition that hundreds of thousands of those deaths may have been preventable, we may ...
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1914-1918 : the history of the First World War / David Stevenson

1914-1918", David Stevenson's history of the First World War, has been acclaimed as the definitive one-volume account of the conflict. In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass ...