In this episode of "To Health and Back," we'll hear from Dr. J. Alexander Navarro, the assistant director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, to see what mask-wearing looked like during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Read the transcript for this episode here.
SHOW NOTES:
- CDC: Read about the 1918 flu pandemic
- Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan: Read about Dr. J. Alexander Navarro and his work.
- Early Human Development, 2020: Read about adherence to face mask use during both the COVID-19 and 1918 influenza pandemics.
- Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006: Read about the work of Dr. Navarro and his team, who studied "nonpharmaceutical interventions used to mitigate the second, and most deadly, wave of the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in the United States."
- Forbes: Read Kiona N. Smith's article about the Anti-Mask League.
- Health Affairs: Read about the failures of mask-wearing in 1918, and why we need to wear masks today.
- Influenza Archive, Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan: Check out this resource on the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. Dr. Navarro is the co-editor-in-chief of "The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia." Dr. Navarro researched and wrote the online encyclopedia’s essays elucidating 50 American cities’ experiences during the pandemic.
- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2015: Read about the use of facemasks during surgical procedures.
- Michigan Health: Read Dr. Navarro's article about mask resistance in 1918.
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