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1918, yall. This experiment was conducted and published in 1918. It made the front page of the Boston Globe in 1918.

For the record, the Spanish Flu pandemic landed in the US in Boston, MA, on August 28th, 1918. It jumped to the civilian population (having first appeared among service members) and became headline news two weeks later.

This paper? Was published October 12th. Not even 8 weeks later.

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