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Historians Reflect on the Pandemic

Pic of Jay Sexton
A Note from Quarantine in Oxford
Children in Iron Lung. Courtesy of Boston Children's Hospital
Jonathan Sperber: Infectious Disease in the Twentieth Century
Gasoline Price on May 3 in Columbia
Victor McFarland: Oil Prices and the Pandemic
Meat Regulations and Coronavirus
Chris Deutsch: Meat Regulation and Coronavirus
cover of Jay Sexton's book
Jay Sexton: A Historian of Crisis Looks at the Present Moment
Read Hall 1912
Kris Lawson: When the 1918 flu Pandemic came to Columbia, Missouri
FLU EPIDEMIC, 1920. By 1919, the influenza pandemic killed between 20 and 40 million people. So great was the fear of contracting this deadly virus that people as far away as Dublin took whatever precautions they could to protect themselves. Page 75, Images of America : Dublin, by Mike Lynch and the Dublin Heritage Center. FLU EPIDEMIC, 1920. By 1919, the influenza pandemic killed between 20 and 40 million people,  Contributing Institution: Dublin Heritage Park and Museums
Kristy Wilson Bowers: Social Distancing Has a Long History

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