Accounts of earlier pandemics eerily echo our coronavirus crisis but teach us that small decisions can affect the outcome
The year is 1665 and the plague is in London. A man riding through Essex finds “all the way people, citizens, walking to and again to enquire how the plague is in the city this week”. He dutifully tells one person after another there have been 2,020 new plague deaths.
Flash forward to 2020 and Covid-19 is everywhere. People are once again clamoring for numbers – confirmed cases, hospitalizations, deaths and positivity rates – and for exactly the same reason.
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