Americans prepare to join the fight overseas. The yanks are coming the drums are coming everywhere but there was another fight about to take place right here on american soil. One that would eventually kill more people than the great war itself. It was the influenza pandemic of 1918 known back then as the spanish flu. You said you cant understand how america dealt with the influenza pandemic in 1918 without understanding world war i. Because everything about the pandemic was related to the war and everything about the war at that time was related in a sense to the pandemic. Historian Kenneth Davis says an early outbreak of flu was reported at camp fundston, part of fort riley in kansas. Young men arriving for training and deployment were suddenly becoming sick. The outbreak in kansas in march of 1918. March 4th, we know the date. Doctors are noticing a strange influenza that doesnt look like anything else they have ever seen. What were the first symptoms they started to see . Very high
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This report to the 2021 SEP summer school was delivered by Dr. Benjamin Mateus, who has led the coverage on the WSWS of the scientific and medical issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.