Plague and Spanish flu shaped our world – will the coronavirus pandemic have as big an impact?

In 2008, a young economist named Craig Garthwaite went looking for sick people. He found them in the National Health Inter­view Survey (NHIS). Conducted annually by the United States Census Bureau since 1957, the NHIS is the oldest and biggest continuing effort to track Americans’ health.The survey asks a large sample of the citizenry whether they have a variety of ailments, including diabetes, kidney disorders and several types of heart disease. Garthwaite sought out a particular subset of…

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