How three prior pandemics triggered massive societal shifts
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A 19th-century engraving depicts the Angel of Death descending on Rome during the Antonine plague. J.G. Levasseur/Wellcome Collection, CC BY – By Andrew Latham, Professor of Political Science, Macalester College 2020 Oct 01 – Before March of this year, few probably thought disease …