That (mad!) scientists exhumed corpses with this goal in mind, and succeeded in reconstituting the Spanish flu virus is established fact. Happened back in 2005 in fact.
Try searching the archives of these posts for the name "John Cullen" There was a very interesting and very long interview between him and a guy named Dave Collum where Cullen outlined a hypothesis that there were two pandemics, but the coronavirus was a diversion from a much more serious influenza leak. Cullen originally thought it was this Spanish flu, but later changed his mind on the subtype. It is an extremely spooky journey down a rabbit hole, and I felt disturbed without feeling fully convinced when I finished listening to it.
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https://www.historynet.com/alaskan-village-holds-key-understanding-1918-spanish-flu/
Try searching the archives of these posts for the name "John Cullen" There was a very interesting and very long interview between him and a guy named Dave Collum where Cullen outlined a hypothesis that there were two pandemics, but the coronavirus was a diversion from a much more serious influenza leak. Cullen originally thought it was this Spanish flu, but later changed his mind on the subtype. It is an extremely spooky journey down a rabbit hole, and I felt disturbed without feeling fully convinced when I finished listening to it.
*Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon*