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From Wondry, I'm Stephen Johnson.

And this is Fighting Coronavirus.

The 1918 Flu Pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States.

That's more deaths than the casualties suffered on the battlefields of World War I, which was well underway when the virus hit.

But while there are countless World War I memorials throughout our country, there are very few that remember the 1918 pandemic.

It turns out though that there's a lot to learn from revisiting the Spanish flu.

Today's guest is an expert on the ways cities during that period implemented their versions of social distancing,

and how those strategies ultimately impacted their recovery.

She's got an invaluable perspective for our current moment, history that can tell us something about our future.

Nancy Bristo is Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound, and the author of the book American Pandemic,

the Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.

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Professor Nancy Bristo, thank you so much for joining us on Fighting Coronavirus.

Oh, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you.

I want to begin actually with the speech that you gave at the National World War I Museum just a little less than a year ago.

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