This is Democracy – Episode 77: Viruses, Diseases, and Public Health Responses

Jeremi sits down with Dr. Christopher Rose to discuss the coronavirus within the context of historical pandemics. As always, Zachary kicks things off with his poem entitled, “With an Unspoken Doubt.” Christopher S Rose is a historian of early modern and modern Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean. He is currently (2019-2020) a Postdoctoral Research fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of “Implications of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic (1918-1920) for the History of Early 20th Century Egypt,” forthcoming in the Journal of World History. He is also currently working on a book project titled Home Front Egypt: Famine, Disease, and Death During the Great War, 1914-1919, which examines the impact of World War I on the Egyptian peasantry, focusing on food shortages and disease.