Jen’s Reviews > The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History > Status Update

The first section: Warriors, is a dive into the history of medical science. While the takeaways are interesting (medical science did not progress for centuries and then made explosive progress in just a few decades) and important, it reads painfully like a who’s-who. So many names, and it’s dull as all get-out. The manner in which it’s written definitely means skim it unless you like to know who did what.

“...as a result, influenza kills more people in the United States than any other infectious disease...”