Coronavirus lessons from 1918 Spanish flu – here's what worked to save lives

America is waging a battle on multiple fronts to mitigate and suppress COVID-19.

“It's like we have 54 separate hurricanes in every state, territory and the District of Columbia," Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau, said on Thursday.  "Some are Category 5s, some are Category 3s, some are Category 1s.”

Our nation has been through this before. In 1918, Americans fought a similar battle against the Spanish flu epidemic, which claimed 675,000 Americans and between 50 and 100 million lives around the world.

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