The Philadelphia ... the flu had killed 670,000 Americans – more than died in World War I. Anywhere from 50 million to 100 million people died worldwide, making the pandemic the deadliest ...

In September 1918, Philadelphia held a planned Liberty ... But the parade took place when the pandemic commonly called the Spanish flu – the H1N1 virus – arrived in the city of 1.7 million ...

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, including about 675,000 in the United States. But no American city was hit harder than Philadelphia. Trump is ...

Flu kills. Not so much during ... dying — sometimes hundreds awaited burials. Then at the end of October, the disease suddenly eased up in Philadelphia. Churches reopened on Oct. 27, with ...

In the week ending October 5, some 2,600 people in Philadelphia had died from the flu or its complications. A week later, that number rose to more than 4,500,” the pandemic historian Kenneth C.

The “Spanish flu” pandemic, the subject of a new ... which focuses on the intersection of art and politics. PHILADELPHIA — A virus makes its way around the globe causing sickness, death ...