Back on 23Nov09, Jack observed that he'd not heard of even a novel, poem, or painting, covering this Influenza pandemic.

I recently read a 2007 novel by Reina James titled "This Time of Dying":

https://granta.com/this-time-of-dying/

and she writes here comparing our response to Covid-19 to the reaction to the Spanish Flu in 1918 :

https://granta.com/from-the-spanish-flu-to-covid-19/



Cheers, R-J