The Spanish flu raced through crowded tenements and neighborhoods, killing more than 20,000 New Yorkers. But it could have been much worse. Train conductors in New York, like many residents at the ...

New York reported its first death from the virus on September 15, 1918. After all three waves of Spanish Flu, about 33,000 New Yorkers out of a population of 5.6 million died, 21,000 of whom died ...

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which claimed an estimated ... compares the two months since the first recorded death of COVID-19 in New York City – the epicenter of the U.S. epidemic for weeks ...

However, at a fundamental level, what was effective against the Spanish Flu remains effective against Coronavirus. New York’s relatively successful handling of the pandemic offers three clear ...

But the New York population is nearly 3 million people larger today than it was in 1918. So the Spanish flu caused more excess deaths — the number of deaths beyond what's expected for a given ...

Languages; English. The number of excess deaths during the first two months of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City was comparable with the height of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, researchers ...

Literally that night.” Royal S. Copeland, the powerful health commissioner of New York City when the Spanish flu crept in, looked askance at pandemic responses elsewhere. While the nation’s ...

CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — A 102-year-old New York woman who was born during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic has now survived COVID-19 twice. Angelina Friedman, who lives in a nursing home in ...

Because the decade that followed the so-called "Spanish Flu" happened to be one of the great ones for New York theater. Noel Coward and George S. Kaufman! Eugene O'Neill and Flo Ziegfeld!

The flu struck on Christmas: The number of new cases reported on Dec. 26 totaled 24. Q. What the total death toll from the Spanish flu in York County? A. That local number is unknown from official ...