{"id":17474,"date":"2022-02-07T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=17474"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:52:27","slug":"the-1918-flu-didnt-end-in-1918-heres-what-its-third-year-can-teach-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=17474","title":{"rendered":"The 1918 flu didn&#8217;t end in 1918. Here&#8217;s what its third year can teach us."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In New York City in 1920 &#8211; nearly two years into a deadly influenza epidemic that would claim at least 50 million lives worldwide &#8211; the new year began on a bright note. &#8220;Best Health Report for City in 53 Years,&#8221; boasted a headline in the New York Times on Jan. 4, 1920, after New York had survived three devastating waves of the flu virus. The nation as a whole, which would ultimately lose 675,000 people to the disease, believed that the end might finally be in sight.Subscribe to The Post Most new<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2022\/02\/06\/1918-flu-fourth-wave\/\">The 1918 flu didn&#8217;t end in 1918. Here&#8217;s what its third year can teach us.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New York City in 1920 &#8211; nearly two years into a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1173,740],"class_list":["post-17474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-1173","tag-pandemic","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}