Dispatches from 1918

Dispatches from 1918

7/17/2020 by WNYC Studios

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It’s hard to imagine what the world will look like when COVID-19 has passed. So in this episode, we look back to the years after 1918, at the political, artistic, and viral aftermath of the flu pandemic that killed between 50 and 100 million people and left our world permanently transformed.

It’s kind of shocking how much people who were and became world leaders were changed by the virus.