Season 1, Episode 7
Hot Tub Data Time Machine
Take a brief trip through history as we look back 1, 10, 50, and 100 years at how diseases, vaccines, politics, and technology have evolved and impacted our lives.
Host
Jason Anderson
About This Episode
After hearing for the nth time that COVID “is just like the flu,” I found myself wondering how much truth might actually be hiding in that statement. As Mark Twain once said, the past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes; and there are quite a few similar tones between our present-day COVID experience and the flu pandemics of the past century.
In this episode, we take a short trip back in time: 1, 10, 50, and 100 years into the past, to take a look at how influenza and vaccines and politics and death and other random slices of history have played out. We return to a time when malaria ran rampant in the US, people were dying of polio, and the World Health Organization didn’t exist.
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