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Article content Respiratory pandemics come along every few decades. Serious ones, every 50 or 100 years. And while the way we have come to live may seem so alien and unnatural, plagues have been “a part of our story for a very long time,” Dr. Nicholas Christakis writes in his new book on this newest plague. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or It's only 'the end of the beginning.' COVID-19 will be with us for years Back to video Since the birth of our species, “humans have had countless plagues. We’ve been shaped by those plagues, but then...

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History suggests that we might forget the COVID-19 pandemic sooner than we think Even the Spanish flu quickly faded from collective memory, and we must ensure that the same does not happen again By Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian One day, this will all be over. That is hard to believe now, when even last month seemed interminable, the January that refused to end. However, one day, not soon perhaps, we will speak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the past tense. When that time comes, how will we remember the plague that visited death upon us? So far, the act of remembering has been deferred or ...

UPDATED: January 9, 2021 07:31 IST Winter solstice. Concealed in a cloud, Jupiter and Saturn kiss unseen. With 78 million lives interrupted by a speck of RNA gone rogue, Earth is a grisly planet. Even in an appalling year, because life is more than srushti pushti nashti, bookwards we leaned, inevitably reading more about pandemics. Words, words, words—but you’ve heard that one before. Mark Honigsbaum, with nine examples of pestilence, paints the 20th as The Pandemic Century. Armed with germ theory and antibiotics we swaggered while new pathogens spilt past species barriers. “The only th...