HISTORY: East TN historians reflect on 1918 flu pandemic amid coronavirus concerns. “We thought we’d heard about it in other places. We thought we were kind of dodging a bullet and then suddenly in October, around October 3rd, 1918 suddenly a few local soldiers got sick and within about two weeks 6,000 people in Knoxville were sick with the Spanish flu.”
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