1918 Diary of Idaho Student Paints Picture of Life in the Last Pandemic
December 03, 2020
This story by Molly Wampler was published by Boise State Public Radio on Nov. 30.
The COVID-19 pandemic isn't the first pandemic in recorded history. In fact, personal stories of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic exist deep in the archives. For college students today struggling through quarantines, strained social dynamics, new academic demands and the politics of visiting home for the holidays, it might be comforting to know that young adults their age went through — and survived — all of this before. Read more and listen.
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