Meg Gerstenblith News Today

As we approach the anniversary of Lancaster County partially reopening in May 2020 ahead of Gov. Tom Wolf’s guidelines and debate the role of a potential Lancaster County health department, historians cannot help but have a sense of deja vu. Last year was not the first time Lancaster reopened against a state mandate during a pandemic. In 1918, the so-called “Spanish flu” ravaged Lancaster, much like COVID-19 has. At that time, the Lancaster city Board of Health succumbed to busin...