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Wave over wave: How water imagery has helped us understand (and predict) disease - CBC.ca
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Even by the early 1800s, the concept of waves was seen in tracking the progress of disease. In her latest Apocalypse Then column, Ainsley Hawthorn notes that by the 20th century, waves had transitioned from a means of describing a pandemic's behaviour to a me…
This column is an instalment in our series Apocalypse Then
, in which cultural historian Ainsley Hawthorn examines the issues of COVID-19 through the lens of the past.
Since the beginning of the C… [+5646 chars]
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