MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show December 31, 2020
Starts with just a guy on a bus. In march of 1947, a 47yearold businessman took this bus route from mexico city to new york. He was actually on his way to maine, but he was feeling sick, so he got off the bus and checked himself into a new york city hotel. He died in a new york City Hospital about a week later. It would take a while until doctors knew for sure, but the businessman had died of smallpox. And by the time they figured it out, it was too late. The virus was out. One by one, people sick with high fevers and strange rashes started turning up at new york City Hospitals. Smallpox is a ...