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Newspaper
Sun Journal
Location
New Bern, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 2020
Page
11
A century ago Philadelphia chose a crowded parade over distancing and faced a severe flu surge. Leaders George Petras and Karl Gelles recount the event and its tragic toll on residents, warning modern planners to heed public health warnings.
The 1918 Liberty Loans Parade in Philadelphia drew about 200000 spectators and helped spread influenza. Physicians urged cancellation as infections rose before the event, but public health officials pressed on with relentless patriotism to finance bonds.
Dr Max Starkloff led a swift city response with mayoral support to close schools theaters playgrounds city courts and churches and cancel the Liberty Bonds parade as news of flu spread reaches Philadelphia and Boston and other cities.
Cities varied in their actions as the first flu deaths appeared in Boston on Sept 8 1918 and sailors in Philadelphia fell ill days later. Philadelphia upgraded the flu to a reportable disease and warned the public while many residents viewed the war as a priority and dismissed the flu as German propaganda per historian Jeffery Anderson.
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