Obviously not the same, *but* @Radiolab did just report that Woodrow Wilson prob had the Spanish flu in 1919 during WW1 peace talks, w the 'extremely common' symptom of mental disorientation, just before caving on the Treaty of Versailles.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dispatches-1918 https://twitter.com/HouseInSession/status/1313567774606798848
The British Prime Minister referred to Woodrow Wilson's paranoia and delusions from what was probably the Spanish flu, as a "nervous and spiritual breakdown," from which an aide said he'd never fully recovered. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dispatches-1918
Woodrow Wilson went back to negotiating the end of WW1 at the Paris Peace Conference as a different and weaker man after what was prob the Spanish flu, "giving in on this idea to go light on Germany," and then "Germany was pretty much eviscerated."
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