The misnamed Spanish flu is believed to have originated on an Army base in Kansas, where 107 soldiers reported sick with severe flu on March 11, 1918. The flu could not have appeared at a worse ...

Tulane University scholar John Barry, who wrote the definitive history of the 1918 flu, "The Great Influenza," said, "This time around it confirmed the lesson from 1918: you tell the truth.

In 1918, pressured to maintain wartime morale, neither national nor local government officials told the truth. The disease was called “Spanish flu,” and one national public-health leader said ...

And in 1918, as World War I raged, truth was in short supply, most singularly when it came to the "Spanish Flu" pandemic, which claimed the lives of 675,000 Americans and more than 50 million ...

The Saratoga County Historical Society at Brookside Museum is hosting a World War I and Spanish Influenza exhibit through June 2019. The museum at 6 Charlton St. in Ballston Spa is open Thursdays ...

Substitute Spanish flu for coronavirus, 1918 for 2020, and the headlines look familiar. Seattle seized by the Godzilla of modern pandemics. The 1918 flu killed 675,000 Americans; 50-100 million ...

The 1918 pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer "Spanish flu," left at least 50 million people dead around the world, including 675,000 in the United States. Comparatively speaking, about 20 ...

So when the Spanish flu spread across the United States in the fall of 1918, both the government and the media continued the same rosy strategy “to keep morale up.” Advertisement President ...

Spanish flu has become synonymous with a viral apocalypse and, now, with the Covid-19 pandemic. This false equivalence depends largely on a spurious statistic that should never have been published.

Historian John Barry on the 1918 Spanish flu. “The government lied. They lied about everything”: ... Tell the damn truth. This moment demands more than headlines. In a time of noise, confusion ...

The year 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu pandemic. The number of afflicted and the loss of life in 1918 were much worse than the most dire prediction of the coronavirus ...