Most Schools Closed in 1918. What Happened?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Just over 100 years ago, the U.S. was in a similar position as it is today. As more schools across the country reopen, we're revisiting CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta's conversation with Dr. Howard Markel about what we can learn from when schools opened during the influenza pandemic of 1918. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The 1918 flu outbreak was deadly, infecting an estimated 500 million people around the world
0:07.4	according to the CDC.
0:09.4	About 50 million worldwide died, including about 675,000 in the United States.
0:16.9	A little over a hundred years ago, the United States was in a similar position as it is today.
0:22.7	The influenza pandemic of 1918 was raging and millions of children were out of school.
0:28.8	The KELT officials nationwide debated whether it was possible to send them back.
0:34.0	Sound familiar?
0:35.0	Largely at that time, they decided no.
0:38.3	That is, except for in New York, Chicago, and New Haven.
0:43.2	Historian and physician Dr. Howard Marquell joined me back in September to discuss what
0:48.5	1918 can teach us about sending students back to the classroom in the middle of a pandemic.
0:54.8	For revisiting that conversation today, as educators reckoned with new guidelines for
0:59.9	reopening schools, and also tried to track down the thousands of students who have dropped
1:05.0	out.
1:06.0	I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent.
1:10.4	And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.
1:19.0	Dr. Howard Marquell is the director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University
1:23.6	of Michigan.
1:24.9	He and a group of other researchers have been studying data showing how 43 cities responded
1:30.2	to the 1918 pandemic.
1:32.4	I should add, he was also a professor of mine when I was back in medical school.
1:37.4	Dr. Marquell has been a guest on the podcast a few times now.
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