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Line 22: − [https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic] When the 1918 flu hit, doctors and scientists were unsure what caused it or how to treat it. Unlike today, there were no effective vaccines or antivirals, drugs that treat the flu. (The first licensed flu vaccine appeared in America in the 1940s. By the following decade, vaccine manufacturers could routinely produce vaccines that would help control and prevent future pandemics.)+ − Officials in some communities imposed quarantines, ordered citizens to wear masks and shut down public places, including schools, churches and theaters. People were advised to avoid shaking hands and to stay indoors, libraries put a halt on lending books and regulations were passed banning spitting. − According to The New York Times, during the pandemic, Boy Scouts in New York City approached people they’d seen spitting on the street and gave them cards that read: “You are in violation of the Sanitary Code.”+ +
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[https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/blog/past-virus-containing-pandemics-throughout-history "Pandemics Throughout History"]During the 1918 flu, schools, churches, theaters and spaces for public gatherings were closed. In Philadelphia, where the yellow fever hit, the city mostly shut down and quarantined the ill in their homes.
[https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/blog/past-virus-containing-pandemics-throughout-history "Pandemics Throughout History"]During the 1918 flu, schools, churches, theaters and spaces for public gatherings were closed. In Philadelphia, where the yellow fever hit, the city mostly shut down and quarantined the ill in their homes.
When the 1918 flu hit, doctors and scientists were unsure what caused it or how to treat it. Unlike today, there were no effective vaccines or antivirals, drugs that treat the flu. (The first licensed flu vaccine appeared in America in the 1940s. By the following decade, vaccine manufacturers could routinely produce vaccines that would help control and prevent future pandemics.)
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During the 1918 flu some places instituted quarantines, ordering citizens "to wear masks and shut down public places, including schools, churches and theaters". People were also "advised to avoid shaking hands and to stay indoors", libraries stopped lending books and spitting banned. ''The New York Times'' reported that Boy Scouts in New York City gave spitters a "cards that read: “You are in violation of the Sanitary Code.”[https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic]