Editor s note: This article is a part of a series reviewing Utah and U.S. history for KSL.com s Historic section.
PROVO A new dataset published by BYU researchers this week and a coinciding soon-to-be-published research paper give a better understanding of the impact public health interventions had during the 1918 influenza pandemic, including that death rates nearly doubled in cities where there were poor mitigation efforts.
While it s a review of something that happened over a century ago, it could offer insights into measures regarding the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic today considering the many parallels between the 1918-19 pandemic and the coronavirus outbreak.