They say that history doesn’t repeat itself. While that’s certainly true, it’s also true that history does tend to rhyme every now and then.

Today we tell the story of the Spanish flu, a story that could have come from today’s headlines, except it’s actually about a pandemic that happened 102 years ago.

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