As a medical historian, Mark Honigsbaum has grappled not only with the question of how pandemics start — but also how they end. Host Marco Werman speaks with Honigsbaum, a lecturer at City University of London and author of “The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris.”
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