Veteran 3-19-2020

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ABOUT VETERANS ISSUES, ORGANIZATIONS, EVENTS AND OUR MILITARY HEROES

VOL. 8/ISSUE 20

35 CENTS

THURSDAY • MARCH 19, 2020

A

tale

of

two flus

How do the Spanish and COVID-19 viruses compare? S TORY ON PAGE 7

During the 1918 flu epidemic, the Oakland Municipal Auditorium was in use as a temporary hospital. The photograph depicts volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tending influenza sufferers in the Oakland Auditorium. ‘Doc’ Rogers (1873-1960), the photographer of this image, was one of the health professionals tending to the sick. Photo by Edward A. ‘Doc’ Rogers/Wikimedia Commons


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