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As we mark the passage of a year since COVID-19 disrupted everyday life on Delmarva and the Nation, the Delaware State News, published an extensive piece about the connections between today and the pandemic of 1918. As journalist Noah Zucker examined the perspective in Delaware, I was interviewed a couple of times about how my research and how things were upended in 1918.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the link to the full article, Echoes of the Past: 100 Years Apart, Parallels in Spanish Flu and COVID-19.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Delaware State News issue of March 7, 2021 examines the connections between today and 100 years-ago. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we mark the passage of a year since COVID-19 disrupted everyday life on Delmarva and the Nation, the Delaware State News, published an extensive piece about the connections between today and the pandemic of 1918. 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One-hundred-two years ago, public health and police officials in Wilmington had a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Prohibition"","block_context":{"text":"Prohibition","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/category\/prohibition\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-24_23-38-55.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-24_23-38-55.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-24_23-38-55.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-24_23-38-55.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2611,"url":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/ethel-tammany\/","url_meta":{"origin":2713,"position":5},"title":"Nurse Ethel Tammany Died Fighting the Spanish Flu","author":"Mike","date":"November 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I started researching the pandemic of 1918 two years ago, I have spent many hours online mining data and at archives analyzing death certificates, undertaker registers, physician statements, and health department reports. \u00a0Once I have sifted through death records for an area, I frequently pause to visit the cemeteries\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Spanish Flu"","block_context":{"text":"Spanish Flu","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/category\/spanish-flu\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_134238a-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_134238a-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_134238a-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_134238a-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_134238a-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_134238a-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}