Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles: When Vallejo and Mare Island were hit hard by Spanish Flu Vallejo Times-Herald, by Brendan Riley, April 26, 2020 A century before the coronavirus disease dominated the global consciousness, another deadly virus rampaged across the world. The Spanish Flu of 1918, one of the worst pandemics in history, eventually killed up … Continue reading COVID-19 – Lessons from the past: the 1918 flu epidemic hit Vallejo in 3 waves