Fever in 2021? Isolation. Fever in 1884? Immolation.
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COVID-19 mortality
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Responses to a Pandemic: Past and Present
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Quarantine in the 19th Century Mediterranean and Self-Isolation Today
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Gardening, Baking, and Cooking
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