Ben Gummer, a former UK health secretary, now an Oxford history don, wrote a decade ago about the impact of the fourteenth century Black Death. The pandemic, however dreadful, will soon be forgotten by policymakers. Change comes anyway and shouldn’t be attributed to a nasty disease.
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