THEN & NOW How We Dealt With The Hong Kong Flu back In '69 at WOODSTOCK

The Hong Kong Flu of 1969 was the deadliest flu since the Spanish Flu..
Totally different approach in handling a world wide pandemic.
Some classic and iconic scenes, a real sense of the turbulent late sixties.
1968 flu pandemic, also called Hong Kong flu pandemic of 1968 or Hong Kong flu of 1968, global outbreak of influenza that originated in China in July 1968 and lasted until 1969–70. The outbreak was the third influenza pandemic to occur in the 20th century; it followed the 1957 flu pandemic and the influenza pandemic of 1918–19. The 1968 flu pandemic resulted in an estimated one million to four million deaths, far fewer than the 1918–19 pandemic, which caused between 25 million and 50 million deaths.

Hundreds of thousands were hospitalized in the U.S. as the disease hit all 50 states by Christmas 1968. Like COVID-19, It was fatal primarily to people older than 65 with preexisting conditions.

The Centers for Disease Control reports that it killed more than 1 million people worldwide, more than 100,000 of them in the U.S. Luckily, a vaccine was developed early — in August 1969. But the Hong Kong flu is still with us as a seasonal malady.

With the Hong Kong flu, the majority of those infected, didn’t get sick. It is from Travis Air Force Base in the Bay Area, the main return point for soldiers coming home from Vietnam in the fall of 1968.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHIp8p7FokA