The white scarf on the door: a life-saving lesson from the 1918 flu - STAT

The white scarf on the door: a life-saving lesson from the 1918 flu - STAT

The white scarf on the door: a life-saving lesson from the 1918 Spanish flu

By KARA N. GOLDMAN

ALEX HOGAN/STAT

When my grandmother got the flu during the 1918 pandemic, a white scarf tied to her family's front door signaled quarantine. We need to be doing that today.

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