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    The 1918 Flu Pandemic Was Brutal, Killing As Many As 100 Million People Worldwide

    "We had no ICUs at that time. We had no antivirals, had no vaccines for flu. We had no idea that the flu was even a virus at that time," one scholar said. But social distancing helped then too.
    by Hannah Hagemann Apr 02, 2020 2 minutes
    Nurses in Lawrence, Mass., care for victims of the flu epidemic in 1918.

    Last week in a Fox News town hall, President Trump said the 1918 flu pandemic, took the lives of close to 100 million people globally, and those who contracted the illness faced a 50-50 chance, "or very close" of survival.

    During World War I in Europe, the flu struck troops and

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