Lessons from past outbreaks could clue us in to the way out of COVID-19.
Since 2020, quarantining, hunting down at-home tests, and social distancing have become the “new normal” as we grapple with COVID-19.Americans said their routines were disrupted by the pandemic, and 23 percent reported that their work life was negatively impacted.
Disease-driven disruptions to our daily routines is a rarity in the modern world. But for people living in previous centuries, outbreaks were far more common. During the Middle Ages, for example, peopleBy studying past pandemics, scholars can glimpse trends that might indicate how fatal outbreaks finally come to an end and determine when, or if, COVID-19 will pass and allow daily life to return to normal.ever since humans transitioned away from a clan-based nomadic existence.
The disease simmered down but reemerged in select areas, only to recede and then crop up in a new locale a decade later. This cycle continued for centuries. The last known major“The lesson is that when it was over, they didn’t know it was over. For hundreds of years, they kept prepping themselves for the next outbreak,” says Dorsey Armstrong, a professor of English and medieval literature at Purdue University.
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