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Epidemics and Pandemics

Hong Kong’s Perfect Crisis

Timothy McLaughlin

January 29, 2020

Riot police respond to demonstrators in Hong Kong protesting against a plan to use new public housing as a possible coronavirus quarantine facility.

How to Misinform Yourself About the Coronavirus

Alexis C. Madrigal

January 28, 2020

The Deceptively Simple Number Sparking Coronavirus Fears

January 28, 2020

A man's temperature is taken.

A Historic Quarantine

January 24, 2020

How to Flake Gracefully

December 20, 2019

An illustration of a woman reading on a sofa

Fighting the Flu

February 1941 Issue

During the influenza epidemic, members of the Red Cross Motor Corps, all in uniform with cloth face masks, pose for a portrait with stretchers behind a row of ambulances, St Louis, Missouri, October 1918.