The disease, known then as the Spanish flu, struck young adults hardest. 11, 2022, according to the World Health Organization. In comparison, the COVID-19 pandemic killed 5.8 million people by Feb. Worse Than COVID-19Įstimates of the number of people killed by the 1918 flu pandemic range from 15 million to 100 million. Fletcher, not so much.īut there must be something about Fletcher, which bills itself as “a nugget of beauty in Northern Vermont.” Because Fletcher has had the fewest cases of COVID-19 in Vermont, according to the state’s Department of Health. The others had taken drastic measures, such as barricading highways, quarantining all visitors and requiring masks. Researchers who studied the spread of the 1918-20 pandemic couldn’t figure out why, of the seven so-called “escape communities,” Fletcher pretty much dodged the flu.
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