Prior pandemics. looking to the past for insight into the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 is not the world's first pandemic, not its worst, or likely to be its last. In fact, there have been many pandemics throughout history with lessons for the current one. The most destructive pandemic of all time, at least in terms of the number of people killed in the shortest time, was...

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Main Author: Philip A. Mackowiak (Author)
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Published: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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