A centenarian tells the tale of two pandemics

Haeussler, who recently received her first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, notes that there wasn’t any vaccine available for the Spanish Flu during the 1918 pandemic. — TNS

Ursula Haeussler still remembers the frenzy of that day more than a century ago.

She had just sat down for breakfast at the kitchen table as the maid began the morning chores at their home on a small farm in a rural, idyllic German town.