Monica Schoch-Spana

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

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Senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

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One hundred years ago, the world was fighting the spread of the Spanish flu.Globally, nearly 50 million people died, including some 700,000 Americans.  
    
  But despite medical…

Parallels and differences between COVID-19 and 1918 Spanish flu

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