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Are we Athens or Florence? COVID-19 in historical context

We have been here before. In 430 BCE, a plague struck Athens, killing as much as 25% of the population. In 1347 CE, the bubonic plague afflicted western Europe for 4 years, killing as much as 50% of the population. The plague of Athens led to a collapse of their religion, cultural norms and democrac...

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Autor principal: Doolittle, Benjamin R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7852073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33526435
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2020-000811