The Deeper Dig

The Deeper Dig


How Fletcher escaped the 1918 flu

May 29, 2020

Fletcher, Vermont, is one of the 116 towns in the state that haven’t registered any Covid-19 cases so far. But public health researchers have singled it out for another reason: it was one of just a handful of communities in the country that avoided the deadly flu pandemic of 1918. And they want to know whether it holds lessons for today.


Guests: Alex Navarro (University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine)