VIRUSES AND PANDEMICS

Pandemics can come in waves―like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives.

Reading this book, you will learn:

including ...

• The differences (and similarities) between COVID-19 and other coronaviruses
• The bubonic plague/black plague, which wiped out 30% to 60% of Europe's population
• The devastation to the indigenous population during the European colonization of the Americas
• The 1918 Spanish Flu, which did not come from Spain
• The aftermath of various pandemics
• Several modern diseases making a comeback

... and much, much more