1918 flu

COVID-19 first entered the public consciousness about two years ago. It drew a lot of comparisons to another pandemic just over a hundred years earlier. WVXU's Bill Rinehart looks at the influenza wave that surfaced in 1918 and what lessons it has for us today.

As part of WOSU's Letters from Home series, Debra Lape of Avon in Lorain County shared her story about an infamous relative from her family's history.Her…

As the coronavirus spreads across the country, many are looking back on the influenza pandemic of 1918 –inaccurately named the "Spanish Flu"– for lessons…