Here’s how New York City survived a deadly epidemic—in the 1790s

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Here’s how New York City survived a deadly epidemic—in the 1790s

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to unfold, Virginia Commonwealth University history professor Carolyn Eastman, Ph.D., decided to revisit a diary she had read years earlier by Alexander Anderson, a young doctor at Bellevue Hospital on the front lines of two yellow fever outbreaks in New York during the 1790s.

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