6 6 Influenza strikes in 1918 and Coloradans don masks in response COLLEGE What We Can Learn From the Past to Deal With Coronavirus A COLORADO NURSE'S DIARY RECOUNTS BATTLING THE SPANISH FLU By Dana Brandorff CU College of Nursing | Spring/Summer 2020 Photo: History Colorado F rom typhoid to smallpox to the Spanish Flu, we've had no shortage of epidemics in the US in the last 100 years and no shortage of nurses to help care for the ill. Now, it's the coronavirus. Precautions were simple 100 years ago - isolation, bloodletting, inhaling steam and ice baths. But not very effective. In some ways, we've come a lot farther and in others, we are resorting to the same tried and true methods of containment. Digging deep into the CU Nursing archives at the