Nut Meg’s Reviews > The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History > Status Update

"Epidemiologists have computed that measles requires an unvaccinated population of at least half a million people living in fairly close contact to continue to exist."

"...they were called to Camp Upton in Long Island." It's ON Long Island. This was published by Penguin, a NYC house. There's no excuse for this

"Coronaviruses cause an estimated 15 to 30 percent of all colds and, like the influenza virus, infect epithelial cells."

"Science had first contained smallpox, then cholera, then typhoid, then plague, then yellow fever, all through large-scale public health measures, everything from filtering water to testing and killing rats to vaccination. Public health measures lack the drama of pulling someone back from the edge of death, but they save lives by the millions."