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But what would we have seen if we'd cracked open a local newspaper in autumn 1918? It was in the fall of 1918, right at the end of the war. population was hit.Д«ROOKE GLADSTONE The second wave was the deadliest here. JOHN BARRY An estimated 28 percent of the U.S. That would equal if you adjusted for population somewhere between 200 and 400 million, today. I mean, we can't prove that through molecular biology, but epidemiologically it seems quite certain.Д«ROOKE GLADSTONE Between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide were infected. There were actually medical journal articles saying this looks and smells like influenza, but it's not killing enough people, so it's probably not influenza.Д«ROOKE GLADSTONE There was a mutation between the first and second wave? JOHN BARRY That was the first place that the second wave hit in the United States, I mean, the virus clearly changed in the first wave, it was generally mild. It was well-established elsewhere before it ever arrived in Spain.Д«ROOKE GLADSTONE We do know that it spread on our shores out of control from a military base outside of Boston. So there was a lot of press about it and it got the name Spanish Flu. JOHN BARRY Spain was not at war, so it didn't that its perhaps because the king himself got sick. He told us it was only covered by newspapers in neutral Spain, which in fact is how the flu got its name. About all this and more, we spoke earlier this year to John Barry, author of The Great Influenza The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. Not wanting to look weak, the Germans, the British, the French and nearly everyone else kept mum. The first wave to hit Europe's First World War battlefields was in the spring. Yet President Woodrow Wilson never addressed the nation's loss in any way. Ultimately, that flu killed more than 50 million people worldwide, including at least 675,000 Americans. Just as the Spanish flu returned to menace in the fall of 1918. Д«ROOKE GLADSTONE The murderous second wave is upon us. Д«IDEN We're about to go into a dark winter, a dark winter. 44 states reporting a rise over the past week. NEW REPORT New cases, nearly triple the daily rate we were seeing just a few weeks ago. Some hospitals are already talking about rationing care. NEWS REPORT Hospitalizations around the country have nearly doubled since late September. We start with the specter still haunting us this Thanksgiving weekend. We have a lot of history coming up this hour, some sweet, most sour, pretty much all of it fascinating and all tending to the inevitable conclusion, to paraphrase Samuel Beckett, that the sun shines, having no alternative on the nothing new. Bob Garfield is out this week, I'm Brooke Gladstone. We get it.Д«ROOKE GLADSTONE It's all coming up, after this.Д«ROOKE GLADSTONE From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. They lose all trust in authority rumor and panic spread.Д«ROOKE GLADSTONE Plus, how and why America has always claimed ownership of the work of Britain's very own Will Shakespeare. People very rapidly know they're being lied to. JOHN BARRY There are people dying 24 hours after the first symptoms. On this week's show, we remember how during the fall of 1918, the Spanish flu roared back with a similar vengeance and similarly incoherent and inconsistent advice from state public health authorities. Д«ROOKE GLADSTONE From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media, I'm Brooke Gladstone. BIDEN We're about to go into a dark winter.

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