Coronavirus: a historical perspective
As COVID-19 dominates the news, Laura Spinney asks what we might learn from pandemics in the past

Published: March 16, 2020 at 3:55 pm
As COVID-19 dominates the news, Laura Spinney draws historical parallels with other pandemics in history and asks what we might learn from disease outbreaks in the past

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