The NYT headlines from the 1918 influenza epidemic mirror the ones from today, it seems. Here&
#39;s 9/13/18
9/23/1918, and things seem better
Seems appropriate to end here: By 12/20/1918, the paper estimated, 6 million people around the world had died
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