As the world begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic with shots going in arms, a growing sense of jollity is coming over more and more vaccinated people. There's an interesting parallel between the end of this pandemic and what could follow with the end of the 1918 influenza pandemic and the 1920s.

On this episode of This Is Why, we discover the similarities and differences between the two eras, and why the 2020s might not be a repeat of a century earlier.

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Guests:

Agnes Arnold-Forster, health care and medicine historian

Episode Resources:

• "Will the end of the COVID-19 pandemic usher in a second Roaring ’20s?" on The Conversation