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Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure
A historian of global health explains how the lack of ICU beds in low-income communities is the result of government spending cuts dating back to the 1970s.
by
George Aumoithe
,
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
via
The Nation
on
January 19, 2022
Without Context, COVID Tallies Are Misleading
Counting both uninfected and infected people helps us better understand a pandemic.
by
Jim Downs
via
Los Angeles Times
on
December 19, 2021
Political Accountability and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Why do some political incumbents adopt aggressive measures to slow the spread of infectious diseases while others do not?
by
Yuri M. Zhukov
,
Jacob Walden
via
Broadstreet
on
December 10, 2021
partner
History Shows That Passing School Coronavirus Vaccine Mandates Could Require Exemptions
Enacting vaccination mandates demands political give and take.
by
Elena Conis
via
Made By History
on
November 19, 2021
Exhibit
Epidemic Proportions
How Americans have understood epidemics, from the Columbian Exchange to COVID-19.
'I Long Regretted Bitterly, and Still Regret That I Had Not Given It To Him'
Benjamin Franklin's writing about losing his son to smallpox is a must-read for parents weighing COVID-19 vaccines today.
by
Olivia B. Waxman
via
TIME
on
November 2, 2021
An AIDS Activist's Archive
June Holmes was in her late twenties, working as a social worker on Long Island, when she first heard about “this thing called AIDS.”
by
Scott Wasserman Stern
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 29, 2021
The 1918 Influenza Won't Help Us Navigate This Pandemic
We have no historical precedent for this moment.
by
Howard Markel
via
The Atlantic
on
August 19, 2021
The Long History of Mandated Vaccines in the United States
Vaccines against smallpox during the Revolutionary War are one example of how mandates have protected the health of Americans for more than two centuries.
by
Lindsay M. Chervinsky
via
Governing
on
August 5, 2021
Vaccine Mandates Are as American as Apple Pie
Those who claim that vaccine resistance is an expression of liberty are historically illiterate.
by
Matt Ford
via
The New Republic
on
July 30, 2021
How Early Americans Narrated Disease
Early Americans coped with disease through narratives that found divine providence and mercy in suffering.
by
Philippa Koch
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
July 6, 2021
Benjamin Franklin's Fight Against a Deadly Virus
Colonial America was divided over smallpox inoculation, but he championed science to skeptic.
by
Mark Canada
,
Christian Chauret
via
The Conversation
on
July 1, 2021
Edgar Allan Poe’s Other Obsession
Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science.
by
Daniel Engber
via
The Atlantic
on
June 11, 2021
This Pandemic Isn’t Over
The smallpox epidemic of the 1860s offers us a valuable, if disconcerting, clue about how epidemics actually end.
by
Jim Downs
via
The Atlantic
on
June 9, 2021
partner
Paying People to Get Vaccines is an Old Idea Whose Time Has Come Again
While smallpox was ravaging late 18th century Britain, John Haygarth thought up of a plan to pay people for public health compliance.
by
Margaret DeLacy
via
HNN
on
June 6, 2021
How Native Americans Were Vaccinated Against Smallpox, Then Pushed Off Their Land
Nearly two centuries later, many tribes remain suspicious of the drive to get them vaccinated against the coronavirus.
by
Dana Hedgpeth
via
Washington Post
on
March 28, 2021
Paper Products. Powder Rooms. What Past Pandemics Left Behind Forever.
Disease reshapes our lives in surprising ways.
by
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
March 23, 2021
The Hellfire Preacher Who Promoted Inoculation
Three hundred years ago, Cotton Mather starred in a debate about treating smallpox that tore Boston apart.
by
Livia Gershon
via
JSTOR Daily
on
March 7, 2021
The Smallpox-Fighting “Virus Squads” That Stormed Tenements in the Middle of the Night
In the 1800s, they helped lay the groundwork for the anti-vaccine movement.
by
Rebecca Onion
,
Michael Willrich
via
Slate
on
February 9, 2021
partner
We’re Catching More Diseases From Wild Animals, and It’s Our Fault.
Scientists explain how viruses, like Covid-19, spill over from animals to people, and what we must do to stop the next pandemic.
via
Retro Report
on
January 27, 2021
You Are Witness to a Crime
In ACT UP, belonging was not conferred by blood. Care was offered when you joined others on the street with the intent to bring the AIDS crisis to an end.
by
Debra Levine
via
The Baffler
on
January 5, 2021
How Fashion Was Forever Changed by “The Gay Plague”
An oral history with 25 fashion luminaries, highlighting a previously untold history of the AIDS crisis.
by
Phillip Picardi
via
Vogue
on
December 16, 2020
Cicely Was Young, Black and Enslaved – Her Death Has Lessons That Resonate in Today's Pandemic
US monuments and memorials have overlooked frontline workers and people of color affected by past epidemics. Will we repeat history?
by
Nicole S. Maskiell
via
The Conversation
on
December 2, 2020
What I Learned by Following the 1918-19 ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in (Almost) Real Time
Once the COVID crisis is over, it may take us quite some time to process and psychologically recover from this tragedy.
by
Ethan J. Kytle
via
Tropics of Meta
on
September 25, 2020
The Name Blame Game
A history of inflammatory illness epithets.
by
Haisam Hussein
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
September 14, 2020
When 194,000 Deaths Doesn’t Sound Like So Many
From plague times to the coronavirus, the history of our flawed ability to process mass casualty events.
by
Rebecca Onion
,
Jacqueline Wernimont
via
Slate
on
September 13, 2020
partner
Those Most At Risk Might Be Most Wary of a Coronavirus Vaccine
Racism in medicine, including through forced vaccinations, has created skepticism toward public health campaigns.
by
Elizabeth Grennan Browning
via
Made By History
on
September 11, 2020
Charles Averill’s The Cholera-Fiend: Fiction for a Pandemic
The 1850 novel reveals disturbing continuities between the 19th century cholera pandemics and global health crises today.
by
Sari Alschuler
,
Paul Erickson
via
The Panorama
on
August 23, 2020
The Last Pandemic
Using history to guide us in the difficult present.
by
E. Thomas Ewing
via
Humanities
on
August 16, 2020
How to Have a Powwow in a Pandemic
Native communities in North America have been particularly hard-hit by COVID-19. This isn't the first time.
by
S. I. Rosenbaum
,
Arigon Starr
via
The Nib
on
July 29, 2020
Emerging Diseases, Re-Emerging Histories
The diseases that prove best suited to global expansion are those that best exploit humans' global networks and behaviors in a given age.
by
Monica H. Green
via
Centaurus
on
July 27, 2020
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