Pictured: Two women in 1918 in Seattle sit on their front porch holding two cats which have been kitted out with face masks to protect them from the Spanish flu, which griped the world at the time.

Fact check: Why is the 1918 influenza virus called 'Spanish flu'? In the black-and-white image, a sign reading "Wear a Mask or Go To Jail" is pinned to a young woman's coat. She stands next to two ...

Since early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged both across the U.S. and the world, various photographs of masks worn during the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic were shared online, as we noted with ...

Fact check: Why is the 1918 influenza virus called 'Spanish flu'? In the black-and-white image, a sign reading "Wear a Mask or Go To Jail" is pinned to a young woman's coat. She stands next to two ...

The claim: A study co-authored by Dr. Anthony Fauci found Spanish flu victims died from pneumonia caused by mask-wearing. Since the emergence of COVID-19, masks have become a way of life. But for ...

As Americans were celebrating victory in World War I in the fall of 1918, the masks on returning troops showed that the U.S. was losing another war against the so-called Spanish Flu.

Fauci did not blame mask use for any deaths that occurred during the 1918 Spanish flu. In fact, the paper mentioned in the above-displayed Facebook posts doesn't even mention masks.

In 1918, America adopted mask wearing with a greater vengeance than anywhere else in the world. But a century later, it is Asian countries which have remembered the lessons the US learned.

The Oct. 16, 1918 edition of the Tampa Tribune featured this image of a Red Cross nurse in a "flu mask," described as "one of the things to fight the wave of Spanish Influenza." ...

But masks used nowadays are much sturdier than the porous gauze material that people used during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. A policeman adjusts a citizen's flu mask in San Francisco in 1918.