Considering COVID-19 through the lens of previous pandemics.
An interview with Graham Mooney and Jeremy Greene | MARCH 30, 2021
This Q&A is excerpted from the February 3 episode of the Public Health On Call Podcast.Subscribe to Podcast
This article is adapted from the February 3 episode of the Public Health On Call podcast, in which host Stephanie Desmon interviewed historians of medicine Graham Mooney and Jeremy Greene about what the end to the COVID-19 pandemic might look like, what history tells us about vaccine hesitancy, and one way this time might be different.
How do pandemics end?
Jeremy Greene: This question is often left to a relatively optimistic popular imagination that epidemics end with eradication either [a virus] burns its way through a community and just ends through some sort of natural process, or it is blocked through successful containment strategies and the ability to actually get the reproduction quotient down.