Fall 1996
By Jessica Huie, ’09 and Ben Kong, ‘08
Published in the fall 2007 issue of the "Honors College Chronicle," a student-written and edited publication for many years in the college, this article may strike close to home for many. It’s remarkable and somewhat harrowing to look back at a time where the only pandemic in recent history had been almost one hundred years prior, in 1918.
Enjoy this story, which was written from the personal perspective HC students Jessica Huie, ’09 (H.B.S., M.S., microbiology), and Ben Kong, ‘08 (H.B.S., General Science and Pharm.D.), in 2007, offering a candid review of the issues that were pressing on students’ minds at this time — from common misbeliefs to what health officials were able to adequately predict. Proper hindsight is a rare gift, as is the glimpse into a world that had not yet known a modern global pandemic, which to so many of us now feels so long ago. — Ava Wittman, HC Student Writer
