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Richard Galant writes that the flu pandemic that spiraled around the world a century ago had been underway for a year and a half when a University of Missouri professor made an admission: the effort to fight the disease had been a "dismal failure." Nothing had worked, in contrast to today's Covid-19 pandemic, in which vaccines have been proven effective.
Nothing had worked. "We must admit that no measures adopted controlled the course of the pandemic," Mazyck P. Ravenel told an audience of health workers in October, 1919. "It spread with lightning like speed, went where it listed, and ceased its ravages only when available material was exhausted."More Related News

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