1. COVID-19 and the anti-lessons of history.
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Peckham, Robert
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COVID-19 , *SARS disease , *SARS virus , *HISTORY of epidemics , *PREVENTION of epidemics , *SARS epidemiology , *PRACTICAL politics , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors - Abstract
As the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China's Hubei province continues and new cases of the disease increase globally,[1] there is pressure on historians to show the value of history for policy. The designation of the new virus as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses[8] recognises it as genetically related to but different from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses (SARS-CoVs). 11 R Zhong, P Mozur, To tame coronavirus, Mao-style social control blankets China. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2020
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