The Peter Attia Drive

#107 - John Barry: 1918 Spanish flu pandemic—historical account, parallels to today, and lessons

n this episode, John Barry, historian and author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, describes what happened with the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, including where it likely originated, how and why it spread, and what may have accounted for the occurrence of three separate waves of the virus, each with different rates of…