Pandemics

We're currently living through one of the deadliest pandemics in history. But what can previous outbreaks teach us about handling the coronavirus? Join us as we travel back to the earliest epidemics and move through time to learn about plagues that wiped out entire populations (and pick up some tips for how to handle ours).


Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/pandemics-timeline

https://www.publichealthonline.org/worst-global-pandemics-in-history/

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/black-death-fatal-flu-past-pandemics-show-why-people-margins-suffer-most

https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/disease-has-never-been-just-disease-native-americans/610852/

https://www.history.com/news/1918-pandemic-spanish-flu-censorship

https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-history/developments-by-year

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines