51 - Echoes of 1918: Pendergast's Pandemic

22/05/2020 22 min
51 - Echoes of 1918: Pendergast's Pandemic

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Episode Synopsis

Politics may have played a role in increasing the death toll during the 1918 Influenza pandemic in Kansas City, Missouri.

Retired UMKC medical librarian and R.N. Susan Sykes Berry joins Haley to explain the city's "dysfunctional" response to the pandemic due to its political boss system.