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The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells

The Trump administration reportedly could be taking us down a dangerous path.
by Rebecca Kaplan via Made By History on October 30, 2020
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What I Learned by Following the 1918-19 ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in (Almost) Real Time

Once the COVID crisis is over, it may take us quite some time to process and psychologically recover from this tragedy.
by Ethan J. Kytle via Tropics of Meta on September 25, 2020
A map of the origins of illnesses across the world.

The Name Blame Game

A history of inflammatory illness epithets.
by Haisam Hussein via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 14, 2020

Signs and Wonders

Reading the literature of past plagues and suddenly seeing our present reflected in a mirror.
by Francine Prose via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 14, 2020

Charles Averill’s The Cholera-Fiend: Fiction for a Pandemic

The 1850 novel reveals disturbing continuities between the 19th century cholera pandemics and global health crises today.
by Sari Alschuler, Paul Erickson via The Panorama on August 23, 2020
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Emerging Diseases, Re-Emerging Histories

The diseases that prove best suited to global expansion are those that best exploit humans' global networks and behaviors in a given age.
by Monica H. Green via Centaurus on July 27, 2020

How to Make a Deadly Pandemic in Indian Country

From the 1918 Spanish flu to Covid-19, broken treaties have been the foundation of health crises among Native people.
by Nick Martin via The New Republic on July 22, 2020
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Trump’s Campaign Against Fauci Ignores the Proven Path for Defeating Pandemics

When medicine and journalism defeated cholera.
by David T. Z. Mindich via Made By History on July 22, 2020
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Pandemic Syllabus

Disease has never been merely a biological phenomenon. Instead, all illnesses—including COVID-19—are social problems for humans to solve.
by David S. Barnes, Merlin Chowkwanyun, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan via Public Books on July 13, 2020
Map of Boston from 1722.

This "Miserable African": Race, Crime, and Disease in Colonial Boston

The murder that challenged Cotton Mather’s complex views about race, slavery, and Christianity.
by Mark S. Weiner via Commonplace on July 13, 2020

The Empire of All Maladies

Indigenous scholars have long contested the “virgin-soil epidemics” thesis. Today, it is clear that the disease thesis simply doesn’t hold up.
by Nick Estes via The Baffler on July 6, 2020
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What the Bungled Response to HIV Can Teach Us About Dealing With Covid-19

Politics, public health and a pandemic. What we didn’t learn from HIV.
by Clyde Haberman via Retro Report on July 1, 2020
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How Cremation Lost Its Stigma

The pro-cremation movement of the nineteenth century battled religious tradition, not to mention the specter of mass graves during epidemics.
by Allison C. Meier via JSTOR Daily on June 22, 2020

The Cure and the Disease

Social Darwinism from AIDS to Covid-19.
by Erik Baker via The Drift on June 19, 2020
A nurse takes a patient's pulse in the influenza ward. Patient beds are divided by bedsheets. The nurse wears a swath of white fabric around her face.

Commemorating the Nurses of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Female nurses served their country domestically and abroad by caring for soliders striken by the influenza pandemic.
by Allison S. Finkelstein via Arlington National Cemetery on June 12, 2020
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Will Covid-19 End the Use of Paper Money?

Our cash could spread disease — and there is precedent for changing it because of the pandemic.
by Joshua R. Greenberg via Made By History on May 15, 2020

I Survived Prison During The AIDS Epidemic. Here’s What It Taught Me About Coronavirus

COVID-19 isn’t an automatic death sentence, but the fear, vilification and isolation are the same.
by Richard Rivera via The Marshall Project on May 14, 2020
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Will Covid-19 Lead to Men and Women Splitting Care Work More Evenly?

History shows that men have always been able to handle care work — when they have to.
by Sarah Keyes via Made By History on May 12, 2020

Why Humanity Will Probably Botch the Next Pandemic, Too

A conversation with Mike Davis about what must be done to combat the COVID-19 pandemic – and all the other monsters still to come.
by Mike Davis, Eric Levitz via Intelligencer on April 30, 2020

Writing Histories of Intimate Care and Social Distancing in the Age of COVID-19

Unlike cholera, physical and sensory proximity can spread COVID-19 among the populations most vulnerable to it.
by Timothy Kent Holliday via Nursing Clio on April 29, 2020

Disease Has Never Been Just Disease for Native Americans

Native communities’ vulnerability to epidemics is not a historical accident, but a direct result of oppressive policies and ongoing colonialism.
by Jeffrey Ostler via The Atlantic on April 29, 2020

Typhoid Mary Was a Maligned Immigrant Who Got a Bum Rap

Now, she's become hashtag shorthand for people who defy social distancing orders.
by Katherine A. Foss via The Conversation on April 24, 2020

Infection Hot Spot

Watching disease spread and kill on slave ships.
by Manuel Barcia via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 22, 2020

Don’t Look For Patient Zeros

Naming the first people to fall sick often leads to abuse.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via The New Republic on April 8, 2020

In 19th-Century America, Fighting Disease Meant Battling Bad Smells

The history of unpleasant odor, or miasma, has unexpected relevance in the time of COVID-19.
by Melanie A. Kiechle, Daniela Blei via Atlas Obscura on April 8, 2020

America's Devastating First Plague and the Birth of Epidemiology

In the 1790s a plague struck the new American nation and killed thousands. Noah Webster told the story of pandemics and invented a field.
by Joshua Kendall via TIME on April 4, 2020
Engraving of Reverend Cotton Mather, 1721, surrounded by a crowd.

The Slave Who Helped Boston Battle Smallpox

Like so many black scientists past, the African who brought inoculation to the American colonies never got his due.
by Lashyra Nolen via UnDark on April 2, 2020

How Epidemics Shaped Modern Life

Past public health crises inspired innovations in infrastructure, education, fundraising and civic debate—and cleaned up animal carcasses from the streets.
by Katherine A. Foss via Zócalo Public Square on April 1, 2020

The History of Smallpox Shows Us Nationalism Can’t Beat a Pandemic

“America First” is a fairly useless strategy in the quest for a COVID-19 vaccine.
by Charles Kenny via Slate on March 31, 2020
The Bellevue Hotel in Philadelphia, PA.

An American Outbreak of Death and Panic

On the eve of America’s Bicentennial, a mysterious illness terrifies the country and sends disease detectives racing the clock to find answers.
by Alexandra Coria via Medium on March 30, 2020
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