How the Spanish Flu Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Spanish Flu killed anywhere from 20-100 million or more people over 1918/1919. All of this played out with World War I in the foreground, one big reason why the flu spread so far, so fast. Learn all about this devastating pandemic in today's episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuff Works.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant right there.
0:47.0	There's Jerry over there and well you guys are feeling fine.
0:51.4	I'm a little under the weather but it's still Stuff You Should Know, the 2019 Flu Edition.
0:58.3	That's right and this is dangerously close to public state for us.
1:02.7	Yeah a little close for comfort if you ask me.
1:06.2	But you know what this gives us the opportunity to do.
1:09.2	Real-time stuff.
1:10.2	Yeah like say Seattle, Portland and San Francisco.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:16.0	We're going to be in your town next week.
1:19.4	The week out, no you're right dude next week when this comes out.
1:23.3	Yeah so more theater on January 15th in Seattle, Revolution Hall in Portland on January 16th
1:31.6	and then our annual sketch fest show at the Castro on January 17th.
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