How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic - Bio-Defense Network
Mar 2020

How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic

Nina Strochlic and Riley D. Champine write in National Geographic that social distancing isn’t a new idea—it saved thousands of American lives during the last great pandemic. Here’s how it worked.

We learned that our adopted hometown of St. Louis took extraordinary steps in 1918 to limit the spread of the “Spanish Flu,” and this article does a deep dive into what happened there and elsewhere to save lives.

Is your community, or your state, doing what it should to fight COVID-19? If so, share your story here. If not, tell us about that too!

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