Social Distancing Might Work, but Don’t Use the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic to Prove Your Point

Authors

Dr. David Adams, Harding UniversityFollow

Publication Date

Spring 5-9-2020

Subject Area

Section 6: Our Community in a Time of Crisis

Abstract

A special report over the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu Pandemic and COVID-19.

About the Author

Dr. David Adams has been teaching at Harding University for thirteen years. Though his primary area of study is British history, he teaches a variety of survey courses, as well as upper level European history courses. A decade-and-a-half ago, Dr. Adams devoted years of his life studying several historical influenza pandemics in England. Until a few weeks ago, he never thought he would be living out similar things to what he wrote about in his dissertation.