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Unlike with the COVID-19 pandemic, the 1918 influenza pandemic was seen as a short-term inconvenience. The musical culture returned to normal when theatres and music halls reopened in 1919. That was not the same for music performers who often lost…

A look at how previous pandemics and plagues affected theatre at the time.

A fiction audio drama about an old watering hole is the unsettling setting for a grisly tale of two pandemics. The first in the series 1918/2020.

Similar to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the 1918 influenza pandemic shut down all entertainment across the U.S., from movie theaters to vaudeville houses.

Despite the influenza pandemic shutting down entertainment across the United States, New York playhouses and movie theatres remained open at the request of the NYC health commissioner to prevent panic.

Throughout history, from Shakespeare to the Marx Brothers, pandemics have interrupted entertainment. While performers and venues had to deal with the economical outcome, traditionally works that were born from the tragedy seldom used the event as…

This video posits the theory that the H1N1 virus is a synthetic creation and was created in a military lab.

This document from the World Health Organization summarizes suggestions for preventing and mitigating H1N1 in low resource communities.

This update from the World Health Organization reports that travel restrictions related to the outbreak of the influenza A(H1N1) virus are not recommended.

This paper describes the background and presents the evidence, experience and practical considerations to assist EU/EEA countries in making policy decisions on mitigation and containment of H1N1.