Just over 100 years ago, the world faced a deadly pandemic not dissimilar to COVID-19. The "great flu" of 1918-1919 was largely forgotten until we needed to historic lessons on how to combat the waves of infection. With Christopher McKnight Nichols, this week's show investigates the pathogenic parallels.Essential Reading:Christopher McKnight Nichols and Brandon Jett, “Americans used to sacrifice for the public good. What happened?” Washington Post, December 7, 2020 Nancy Bristow, American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (2017).Recommended Reading:John Barry, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (2005).Laura Spinney, Pale Riders: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World (2018). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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