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Collected Item: “History does repeat itself”

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History does repeat itself

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Text story

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In this short paper, I wrote about similarities between the 1918 Spanish Flu the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. I analyze an article written in the Toronto Globe on October 2nd, 1918, and compared it to the events that happened in January-February 2020 in the United States.

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#spanishflu #covid-19 #history

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The Toronto Globe

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2020-11-19
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