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"The story of the Black Death, as historian Thomas Asbridge shows in this magisterial survey, contains many such echoes of the Covid-19 pandemic"
"...the Black Death did not disappear after 1353; it became endemic"
"As for the long-term social consequences of Covid, it is too early to tell"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/08/the-black-death-a-global-history-thomas-asbridge-review-pandemic-history-covid
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The Black Death by Thomas Asbridge review – a medieval horror story

A magisterial history of one of the worst ever pandemics focuses on the individuals caught up in the chaos

The Guardian

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Sam

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Yersinia Pestis is a bacterium. SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus.

No comparison.

COVID mutates ~100,000 times faster the Y. Pestis.

Neither infection results in durable immunity. COVID vaccination last 4-12 months and memory cell immunity 1-2 years. There is no current human vaccine fir the black death. But treatment is very effective after infection, and extremely effective before infection (prophylactic).

COVID transmits fast by air. Y. Pestis transmits slowly by fleas,