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This article in the Boston Globe during the height of the first wave of the Spanish Flu 1918 global pandemic in the US, alerting the populace of Boston that the previously promulgated social distancing guidelines were inadequate, was published mere days after the publication of a scientific research article in the Journal of American Medicine.

Two medical researchers working for the army decided to experimentally determine how far infectious material was dispersed by air.

It was a clever, simple, and elegant experiment.

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