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Dora Vargha

Dora Vargha is Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter. She is author of Polio across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Find her on Twitter @DoraVargha.

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How Epidemics End

Contrary to hopes for a tidy conclusion to the COVID-19 pandemic, history shows that outbreaks of infectious disease often have much murkier outcomes—including simply being forgotten about, or dismissed as someone else’s problem.

Jeremy A. Greene, Dora Vargha

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THINKING IN A PANDEMIC

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