![]() NP: The timing was interesting with selling this book as we lived through, in our time anyway, the first thing like this that hit on a global scale. ![]() A lot of our chapter on that influenza outbreak covers where it came from because if we can answer that question, it might help us figure out how to deal with other ones in the future. And as with every single pandemic, there was the whole question about the origin. There are many parallels between that pandemic and this one, with people fighting mask mandates and the quackery that was involved with people trying everything under the sun to try to take care of the disease. The chapter on the 1918 influenza pandemic really struck home. Honestly, we were thinking it was going to be a side note - there are always these worries that come up and then get squashed. LK: Just when we were putting together the proposal and the chapters, we heard the first inklings that something was going on in China. Q: How did the emergence of COVID-19 influence your writing process? Did it reinforce any historical patterns related to the disease outbreaks you researched? ![]()
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