History in a Crisis — Lessons for Covid-19

Writing in the heady days of new antibiotics and immunizations, esteemed microbiologists Macfarlane Burnet and David White predicted in 1972 that “the most likely forecast about the future of infectious diseases is that it will be very dull.” They acknowledged that there was always a risk of “some…

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