Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Update: Epidemics in History

<p>Infectious epidemics have always driven change and triggered discrimination in human societies. Frank Snowden, DPhil, Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University and author of <em>Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present</em> (Yale University Press, 2019), puts the COVID-19 pandemic in historical context.</p>