Did you know that racism trumped saving lives in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic in the U.S.?
[quote]In the fall of 1918, the United States experienced a severe shortage of professional nurses during the flu pandemic because large numbers of them were deployed to military camps in the United States and abroad. This shortage was made worse by the failure to use trained African American nurses.[/quote]
From a CDC article published in 2018:
https://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2018/05/1918-flu/
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From a CDC article published in 2018:
https://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2018/05/1918-flu/
@bijouxbroussard
