The 1918 Flu Pandemic - Order More Coffins - Part 3 - Extra History

📜 The 1918 Flu Pandemic: Order More Coffins - Dr. Welch, Dr. Avery, Dr. Park, and Dr. Williams are on the hunt now to correctly identify this new pathogen and make a vaccine. But public officials are in denial.

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[extrahistory]

In Philadelphia, the mayor and his health officials are telling the press that the outbreak is nearly over. They continue doing so, day after day, as the death toll mounts and hospital wards fill.

[timothymclean]

The descriptions of Drs. Park and Williams make me wonder how this hasn't been turned into a historical medical thriller/drama or anything. You've got your cast of quirky characters, your world-ending stakes, a second-act darkest hour, and even enough characters to shoehorn in a pointless, annoying romance subplot. It's all the pieces you need for a TV series!

[thevoidlookspretty]

Only Welch, master of doctoring, could stop the plague. But when America needed him most, he vanished.

[shrimpisdelicious]

I gotta say that I have a lot of respect for Welch’s professionalism. He felt the symptoms, identified them, and quick as he could isolated himself so that he st least wouldn’t spread the flu.

That had to be terrifying, but he did it anyway.

[faffywhosmilesatdeath]

7:59 "In Philadelphia, the mayor and his health officials are telling the press that the outbreak is nearly over. They continue doing so day after day as the death toll mounts and hospital wards fill."

A century later and we haven't learned anything.

[DerMangoJoghurt]

This episode summed up:

Doctors: "This is bad, we need to do something!"
Everybody else: "Nah"

[SECONDQUEST]

This is why there are stockpiles of coffins. Not because "they" have a "plan", but because we've run out of coffins repeatedly throughout history. And boy were those times terrible.

[tamar]

I wish my history classes had gone into more detail on this. It was handwaved as "overcrowding" or "trench conditions" as if these problems just _Were, _ with little to no emphasis given to just how many people had to ignore the writing on the wall and refuse to listen to trained medical experts in order for it to get as bad as it did.

[TheKulu]

It's amazing how public officials were so utterly engrossed in the war effort, they ignored a crisis which could severely undermine it.

[루라라-ll]

Even how Welch died shows how great of a man he was...he self-quarantined for weeks in pain in order to stop the spread. A true hero.

[HxHDRA]

Things just got 5000× more dramatic. I was screaming when the doctor got sick!
Also why isn't there a movie on all these cool cats?

[w.kelleyobrien]

Checking in from the future (2020) to say:

[asalways]

I have seen such a suspenseful battle since John Snow went against cholera.

[DragoniteSpam]

I've got to say, Dan's chipmunk voice was pretty cool but Matt's voice is FANTASTIC for super-serious tones.

[bobbertcanuck]

You know you're in trouble when you literally run out of coffins.

[altofmoleperson]

This channel is actually kind of underrated. I mean, these are adults putting the occasional meme into history in a way that isn’t cringe. They make history genuinely interesting. I’m here for it.

[bottomtext]

Nobody ever expects the Spanish Influenza.

[MRxCOMICxCON]

Man, I know COVID doesn't have nearly as much death as 1918 flu, but its really hard not to see some similarities. Like the government trying to downplay its existence until its far too late. The repetition of history and how we never learn from our mistakes.

[tanmoypait]

Watching this while sitting at home due to corona lockdown, puts a chill down my spine

[emokillerx]

The parallels of the 1918 and the current pandemic are chilling. Seems politicians never learned from history