Widespread with Dr. Jeremy Brown & Dr. Jonna Mazet
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The World Health Organization says the coronavirus pandemic is now accelerating in every major city on the planet. But, before the coronavirus, there was the Spanish Flu of 1918, which killed millions around the globe. Full Frame host Mike Walter talks with Dr. Jeremy Brown, emergency room doctor and author of "Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Kill the Deadliest Disease in History," as well as Dr. Jonna Mazet, epidemiologist and executive director of the One Health Institute at the University of California-Davis.
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