Where To Stream American Experience Season 34 Episode 7
Plague at the Golden Gate
- Aired May 24, 2022
- 120 Min
- Rated 8.5
- Number 92 Of 108 Rated Episodes
Over 100 years before the deadly COVID-19 pandemic set off a nationwide wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco's Chinatown unleashed a similar crisis. The death of a Chinese immigrant in 1900 would have likely gone unnoticed if a sharp-eyed medical officer hadn't discovered a swollen black lymph node on his body — evidence of one of the world's most feared diseases, bubonic plague. It was the first time in history that civilization's most feared...