China has been plagued, and shaped, by epidemics – it has also overcome them

What a year it has been! For the greater part of 2020, the whole world has been held hostage by a microscopic pathogen that’s not even considered a living thing. As the coronavirus has rampaged, there have been times we have seemed powerless against the Covid-19 pandemic. Various reports indicate that a vaccine is finally on the cards, but medical experts continue to temper optimism for a panacea. Epidemics have plagued China since written records began 3.5 millennia ago. Historians calculate…

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