Throughout all of human history, mankind has recorded pandemics large and small. From the Justinian Plague of 541-542 AD to the Bubonic Plague of the fourteenth century (1346-53), cholera pandemics ...
A person came down with an atypical form of pneumonia in November 2002, but it would be two months before anyone realized it ...

Pandemics are a choice

For most of our history, humans have experienced plagues and pandemics as acts of unknowable forces. No longer. In recent ...
Allcott, Hunt, Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, and David Yang. 2020. “Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus ...
When death arrived on the shores of Europe in 1347, it came with a terror so profound that entire civilizations crumbled under its weight. The Black Death didn't just kill bodies – it murdered hope, ...
MOORHEAD — We all look forward to the day we'll no longer have to talk about the coronavirus pandemic, but a century from now, schoolchildren from Fargo-Moorhead and beyond will be walking through ...
UB professor Claire Schen and her daughter Maddy Cherr's visual essay focuses on the mental toll of the pandemic and its ...
Researchers at UZH have studied the impact of pandemics on the birth rate in Switzerland for the first time. While the number of births unexpectedly rose initially during COVID-19, it fell ...
The beginning strike by dockworkers along the East and Gulf Coasts carries not only the weight of present-day negotiations but also echoes a deeper historical context — one rooted in the contributions ...
Researchers at UZH have studied the impact of pandemics on the birth rate in Switzerland for the first time. While the number of births unexpectedly rose initially during COVID-19, it fell ...