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1918 flu pandemic upended long-standing social inequalities – at least for a time, new study finds

  • Written by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
1918 flu pandemic upended long-standing social inequalities – at least for a time, new study findsIn this November 1918 photo, a nurse tends to a patient in the influenza ward of the Walter Reed hospital in Bethesda, Md. AP Photo/Harris & Ewing via Library of Congress

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Racial disparities in influenza deaths shrunk by 74% in U.S. cities during the 1918 flu pandemic...

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