Click Here to Read: A Complete History of Pandemics: Renowned scientist and best-selling author Vaclav Smil offers a sweeping look at pandemics that ravaged the world on the MIT Press website on March 30, 2020.
Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Image: National Photo Company. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.