Medical Humanities' Editor-in-Chief, Brandy Schillace, talks to Dr. Eleanor Janega, a medieval historian, about comparisons between COVID-19 and the Black Death. Read the blog post, which includes the transcript of the podcast, here: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/06/10/going-medieval-historical-comparisons-of-plague-and-pandemic

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Going Medieval: Historical Comparisons of Plague and Pandemic

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