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Wilson Quarterly Spring 2021: Pandemics Then and Now

May 20, 202124:29

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we once again discuss the Spring 2021 issue of the Wilson Quarterly: Public Health in a Time of Pandemic with editor Richard Byrne. Also joining us is John M. Barry, Distinguished Scholar at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. He highlights his Quarterly article, Pandemics: Then and Now.

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John Barry

Richard Byrne

Editor, The Wilson Quarterly

Moderator

John Milewski

John Milewski

Director of Digital Programming; Moderator, Wilson Center NOW

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