“Covering COVID-19? Perhaps Leave the Black Death and Great Influenza Out of It”, Timothy Newfield Writes on the Georgetown Environmental History Blog
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In this piece, published on the Georgetown Environmental History blog, Timothy Newfield argues against the trend to compare COVID-19 with other pandemics in history. He explains that “not drawing attention to everything that separates our current pandemic from those of the past may have come at a cost”, as things get oversimplified, anachronisms are committed, and both the present and the past get misrepresented.
Read the piece on the Georgetown Environmental History blog.