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The Philadelphia Liberty Loans Parade was a parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1918, organized to promote government bonds that helped pay for the needs of Allied troops in World War I. More than 200,000 Philadelphians attended the parade, which led to one of the largest outbreaks of the Spanish flu in the United States. It ...
13 Νοε 2009 · On September 28, 1918, a Liberty Loan parade in Philadelphia prompts a huge outbreak of Spanish flu in the city. By the time the pandemic ended, an estimated 20 million to 50 million people...
21 Σεπ 2018 · Philadelphians were exposed en masse to a lethal contagion widely called “Spanish Flu,” a misnomer created earlier in 1918 when the first published reports of a mysterious epidemic emerged...
9 Νοε 2019 · The influenza pandemic of 1918-19 killed between 50 and 100 million people around the world, more than died in the battles of World War I. In the United States, the hardest-hit city was Philadelphia, where the spread of the disease was spurred by what was meant to be a joyous event: a parade.
15 Μαρ 2020 · But the parade took place when the pandemic commonly called the Spanish flu – the H1N1 virus – arrived in the city of 1.7 million people. The virus swept the world between 1918 and 1919.
23 Απρ 2020 · A post on Facebook claims that in 1918 Philadelphia prematurely ended its quarantine from the Spanish flu to throw a parade for the war effort. It claims 200,000 attended and within 72 hours Philadelphia’s hospitals were full and 4,500 people died from the flu in a matter of days.
18 Απρ 2020 · On Sept. 28, 1918, Philadelphia city officials refused to cancel their parade amid the Spanish flu pandemic, with devastating health consequences.
