Fletcher Dodged the 1918 Flu: Does it Hold Lessons for Covid-19?
Title
Fletcher Dodged the 1918 Flu: Does it Hold Lessons for Covid-19?
Creator
Petenko, Erin and Mike Dougherty
Description
Story Fletcher, Vermont, one of only two towns in the US that had zero deaths during the 1918 influenza crisis. The hypothesis is that the town was so isolated that people didn't come in from the outside, although there was a wedding with outsiders at the height of the epidemic. The article also mentions Vermont's battle with polio by limiting social contact in 1914-1918.
Publisher
vtdigger.org
Date
May 31, 2020
Subject
Collection
Citation
Petenko, Erin and Mike Dougherty, “Fletcher Dodged the 1918 Flu: Does it Hold Lessons for Covid-19?,” Digital Vermont: A Project of the Vermont Historical Society, accessed September 19, 2024, https://digitalvermont.org/1918/1844.
