How WWI Changed America: The Influenza Epidemic

Classroom Discussion and Enrichment Questions:
1) During WWI, what was the role of media in encouraging or discouraging the spread of influenza? In your opinion, should this be known as the “Spanish Flu?”
2) How did WWI encourage the spread of the virus?
3) According to the video, who were most likely to succumb to the disease?
4) After watching this video, and citing three source of reliable information, compare and contrast the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19 and the current COVID-19 pandemic  in either an a)Venn Diagram or b) short essay.

Liked and shared. This is valuable context for our troubled times. Thanks for posting!

Great video!

Great video! Hope to visit the museum again soon.

when

Naming the flu on any other country is not the correct court .
It originated in USA only

We are in year two! one more to go! I bet people still wont stay home....

who is watching the video for a history project? give me a like for yes :0

Most of these people were from online school lol

Imagine being in class

When they said that India was hit the hardest immediately my brain went to how India is being effected by covid the worst

We always should remember the past to guide us through our future.

school moment

Me when school : 🥲

The “ Spanish Flu” = The Big Lie.

Spain was the only major European country which, by immediately declaring neutrality as hostilities began in August 1914, had the good sense not to get involved in the insanity and mass slaughter which became "The Great War," later World War I...

love it !!

Imagine just to survive a world war just to be taken out by a flu damn.

People is the problem

Where's your research?!? How could you have skipped over the Measles Epidemic prior to 1917-18?!?? How could you leave out the Army's new experimental Live-Attenuated Measles Vaccine in 1917 given out to ALL troops?!? You leave out something so important and that is the number one common complication of Measles is Pneumonia...and no Antibiotics were discovered. That's what killed so many and our troops spread the first Pandemic while they were in Europe and their Pneumonia was dormant.

America was the only combatant country that included flu deaths in its WWI casualties.

All of this was done purposely.
And done in the name of depopulation!!!

How many eras of survivors have I’ve served .