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    This isn't the first time a virus caused social panic. The Spanish flu did too

    by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times Mar 17, 2020 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - There were warnings by politicians and doctors that the pandemic was coming. Mandatory quarantines followed, along with skepticism by a public that felt the threat was all hype.

    Then, the deaths started.

    This scenario is unfolding across Southern California, as the region hunkers down against coronavirus and reported cases continue to rise.

    But the same sequence played out more than 100 years ago.

    Archives at UCLA, the Huntington Library and the City of Los Angeles capture the little-remembered history of how Los Angeles and other cities across the Southland weathered the deadly 1918 Spanish flu, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide and over 700,000 in the United States.

    Through letters, newspaper clippings,

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