Column: 3 IE links to the Spanish flu pandemic

Coronavirus’ death toll in the U.S. recently exceeded the previous worst pandemic, the 1918-19 Spanish flu. Although arguably, the flu was worse given the lower population at the time and the number of young people it struck down. I share the stories of three living people whose families were affected by the flu pandemic in my Wednesday column.

You might be interested to know that this column has been gestating since, gulp, April 2020, when one of these stories was brought to my attention. The other two came along in the months that followed, most recently in July. The death toll reported two weeks ago is what led me to revive this, because suddenly there was a news hook. As with those commercials for Paul Masson wine, I will write no column before its time…

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