Dr. Anthony Fauci co-authored a paper that found masks caused most deaths during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Rating: False (About this rating?) In late July and early August 2026, social media ...

Viral claims appearing on social media say that Dr. Anthony Fauci published a study in 2008 linking mask usage during the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak to deadly cases of bacterial pneumonia. One post ...

With flu season arriving early and NHS leaders encouraging people with symptoms to wear masks in public, a question arises: do masks actually work against the flu? The short answer is that the ...

In 1918 and 1919, the Spanish influenza pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States. Between October and December 1918, 657 Daytonians died of influenza or ...