The Last Time Schools Opened in a Pandemic

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Around this time 102 years ago, the U.S. was in a similar position as it is today. We've been here before, so why is history repeating itself? CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to 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
0:07.8	according to the CDC.
0:09.8	About 50 million worldwide died, including about 675,000 in the United States.
0:17.5	Around this time 102 years ago, the United States was in a similar position as it is today.
0:23.5	The influenza pandemic of 1918 was raging and it was time to send kids back to school.
0:29.9	The local health officials nationwide debated whether that was possible and largely decided,
0:35.0	no, that is, except for New York, Chicago, and New Haven.
0:41.2	Today, historian and physician Dr. Howard Marquell joins me to discuss what 1918 can teach
0:47.6	us about sending students back to classrooms in the middle of a pandemic.
0:52.6	I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent.
0:56.8	And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.
1:05.3	Dr. Howard Marquell is the director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University
1:10.1	of Michigan.
1:11.3	He and a group of other researchers have been studying the data showing how 43 cities
1:15.6	responded to the 1918 pandemic.
1:19.0	He was also a professor of mine back in medical school.
1:22.5	I like the beard.
1:23.5	Well, yes, my COVID beard.
1:26.4	I shall not shave until this is over.
1:29.6	The position trim thyself.
1:32.1	Yeah, but I'm kind of letting the hair grow a little crazy.
1:37.2	Yeah.
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