KANKAKEE, Ill. (WLS) — Many people are comparing the COVID-19 crisis to the world’s last pandemic, the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918.Agnes Gresen, who is 105, remembers.“I remember we had the epidemic, my dad and all of the five children, including me, were in bed with the flu and my mother died,” she said. “Died…
New York woman, 101, whose mother died giving birth to her on a ship from Italy to the US during the Spanish flu pandemic beats COVID-19New York woman Angelina Friedman, 101, beat the novel coronavirus this monthShe was born during the height of the Spanish flu in 1918 and beat cancerFriedman, who lives in a…
When Debbie Buonopane was infected with the novel coronavirus earlier this month, the emergency room nurse relayed to her family that she didn’t think she would last long.A Navy veteran and breast cancer survivor, Buonopane had been treating coronavirus patients at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston when she began to experience some of the…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…