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How does a pandemic end? The 1918 flu offers a hint

MORE THAN SIX MONTHS AFTER THE World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, one question remains decidedly unanswered: How will it come to an end?

It seems safe to say that someday, somehow, it will end. After all, other viral pandemics have. Take, for example, the flu pandemic of 1918–19. That earlier pandemic was the deadliest in the

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