Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station during Influenza Pandemic, Washington DC, USA, 1918.

(Colorized for The World Aflame).
Also available on Amazon US:

waterstones.com/book/the-world…
Original via Universal History Archive/Getty.
Lasting from February 1918 to April 1920, the pandemic infected 500 million people – about a third of the world's population at the time – in four successive waves.
The death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between 17 million and 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million.

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