Impact of the War on Pandemic

Discuss the impact of the war effort on the pandemic in the United States. Why did Wilson order the newspapers not to carry accounts of the epidemic? How did that impact the people who were seeing those around them getting sick?

Impact of the War on Pandemic

Explain how the movement of troops as a result of the war effort caused the flu to spread to the entire world. What might have been different if the United States had not been at war when the strain of the deadly flu hit Haskell County?

Impact of the War on Pandemic

How did the war effort impact medical care for civilians? Why were there so few doctors and nurses available to civilians? What, in particular, accounted for the shortage of nurses?

Medical Advances in America

American ideas about medicine as well as schools...