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Delaware Hospitals Overwhelmed during Pandemic of 1918

Posted on January 6, 2021February 16, 2021 by Mike

After that deadly killer, the Spanish flu, slipped silently into Delaware in 1918, a devastating autumn outbreak crushed the state’s health care system.  By the middle of September, the pathogen started making considerable inroads in New Castle County, and in the waning days of the month, nearly a thousand Wilmington residents fell ill.  This unchecked…

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