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How Ferrara Escaped The Seventeenth Century Plague

April 13, 2020 · 1 min read

As the plague ravaged Italy from 1629 to 1631, killing more than 45,000 in Venice alone, the northern Italian town of Ferrara kept it at bay. Critical to the city’s success, records suggest, were border…

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Contagious vs Infectious

May 13, 2020 · 1 min read

An infectious disease is a communicable disease that spreads by contaminating people (or animals) with pathogenic microbial agents, such as viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms. In other words, a disease…

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Pandemic Facts

June 3, 2020 · 1 min read

* The shelter-in-place strategy was implemented to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. But hospitals didn’t collapse. We paid $660 million to set up mobile field hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients…

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The 10 Best US Airlines

August 26, 2022 · 1 min read

From The Points Guy website… “There are a lot of ways to measure an airline’s success. [These include] on-time performance, reliable scheduling, the affordability of airfares, excellent elite perks, and the…

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Philadelphia Sports Success And Economic Collapse

November 2, 2022 · 1 min read

From BJ: “I have appreciated your incisive analysis of our current economic situation. I wanted to add a timely tidbit of historical fact: Over the past 100 years, the surest sign of an oncoming financial…

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