What factors led to the Spanish Flu having a significant impact on society in the United States?

The Spanish flu is a deadly influenza virus disease that ravages the world in 1918, it is also called 1918 flu pandemic, it was said to have infected more than 500 million and killing over 50 million people. The virus is transmitted from one person to another person through airborne respiratory secretions.

Factors that led to the Spanish Flu having a significant impact on society in the United States includes:

Impact on productivity:

The spanish flu killed over 500,000 people of the United States in 1918, this greatly affected the productivity output leading shortage of foods production in circulation.

Social and economic factors:

The Social and economic sector was also greatly affected by the 1918 pandemic, cases where most people lost their jobs which leads to major unemployment thereby resulting in low income rate, schools were closed down during the period, which greatly affected the smooth running of education as at that time, the countries gross domestic product was at a low due to the shut down of most sectors of the economy as at that period, and hospital where filled up with low medical personnel and shortage of drugs to cater for people having various health challenges.