Assignment:
Please read these brief articles on the 1918 influenza, and imagine for a moment that we did not have the medical technologies (vaccines, ventilators, IV Medications) that we have today and answer these questions:
Would we see many more deaths without our medical advancements, and if so, why?
What mistakes where made in 1918 that we repeated during this pandemic here in America?
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/influenza-letter/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-we-can-learn-1918-influenza-diaries-180974614/44