In this November 1918 photo, a nurse tends to a patient in the influenza ward of the Walter Reed hospital in Bethesda, Md. AP Photo/Harris & Ewing via Library of Congress by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Minnesota and Martin Eiermann, Duke University Racial disparities in influenza deaths shrunk by 74% in U.S. cities during the … Continued

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