America's long history of secrecy over presidential illness

Kadhim Shubber

Oct 4, 2020 – 2.12pm

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Washington | A deadly pandemic raged across the world. Millions had been infected. And suddenly the US president himself was hit by the virus.

The year was 1919. Woodrow Wilson had been laid low by the Spanish flu in Paris, where he and other world leaders were negotiating the post-World War I settlement in Europe.

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