Active Retirement Association to present A Take of Two Pandemics
Portsmouth Herald
Explore how politics, culture, medicine and foreign affairs impacted the severity of the Spanish Flu of 1918 and COVID-19, and how these diseases changed our world - and how COVID still does.
It’s all part of an online series by the Active Retirement Association (ARA) beginning Feb. 17 in a 10 a.m. Zoom session. Dr. Marion Dorsey will discuss why the Spanish Flu of 1918 was so deadly and the tensions, then and now, between governmental authority, public health and individual liberty. Dr. Dorsey, an associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, will also explain how World War I enhanced the Spanish Flu’s devastating effects.