Epidemics and Pandemics: In 3 Acts

” Epidemics unfold as social dramas in three acts,” said by one man named Charles Rosenberg who found inspiration in Albert Camus’s La Peste.

Everyone should read this historical look at epidemics/pandemics of the past and what they tell us about their characteristics and outlooks. There are lessons here to learn and we hope that it is not too late to exercise many of these in our own current dilemma. It was written by David S. Jones and was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, March 12, 2020.

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Pandemics? A History

An excellent essay from the New England Journal of Medicine (March 13, 2020).

“Epidemics eventually resolve, whether succumbing  to societal action or having exhausted the supply of susceptible victims”. Viruses depend on us living to stay “alive”.

If history repeats itself, other pandemics can show us that Covid-19 will most likely follow the same paths. However, there are no magic bullets – it takes time.

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