Fall 1918
The influenza pandemic reaches its deadliest American wave
A severe fall wave of the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic swept across the United States while the country was still at war. Illness, quarantine notices, disrupted schools and gatherings, and sudden deaths in local records belong to this much larger public-health crisis.
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