Tracing the End of Pandemics Through Generations

Illustration of the bacteria yersinia pestis, which lives on fleas that live on rats

10 months into the pandemic, there’s no reprieve from the disease and everyone is looking for an end date. Amidst this, the BBC underlines how pandemics end with animated visual stories from the past, from the survivors of previous pandemics. Let’s take a look at how pandemics end.

We are in the grip of a pandemic like none other in living memory. While people are pinning their hopes on a vaccine to wipe it out, the fact is most of the infections faced by our ancestors are still with us.

This is...

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How Pandemic Devastation Shape the Modern ‘Pandemic Recipe’

Picture of large room with floor divided into squares and people sitting on red stools in each one.

As the pandemic rages the lessons on how to end it becomes more vital and this is what Richard Conniff the author of the upcoming book ‘Ending Epidemics’ is trying to elaborate in this month’s National Geographic cover story.

Here’s what he says.

The Collective Feeling of a Pandemic

On a Sunday early in March, as the COVID-19 outbreak was racing across the planet, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Pike pitched and rolled en route to the cruise ship Grand Princess, waiting 14 miles off the coast of...

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