{"id":23934,"date":"2020-12-04T23:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=23934"},"modified":"2020-12-04T23:26:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:26:42","slug":"gina-kolata-how-pandemics-end-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=23934","title":{"rendered":"Gina Kolata: &#8220;How Pandemics End&#8221; (The New York Times)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An infectious outbreak can conclude in more ways than one, historians say. But for whom does it end, and who gets to decide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When will the Covid-19 pandemic end? And how?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to historians, pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical, which occurs when the incidence and death rates plummet, and the social, when the epidemic of fear about the disease wanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen people ask, \u2018When will this end?,\u2019 they are asking about the social ending,\u201d said Dr. Jeremy Greene, a historian of medicine at Johns Hopkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, an end can occur not because a disease has been vanquished but because people grow tired of panic mode and learn to live with a disease. Allan Brandt, a Harvard historian, said something similar was happening with Covid-19: \u201cAs we have seen in the debate about opening the economy, many questions about the so-called end are determined not by medical and public health data but by sociopolitical processes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Endings \u201care very, very messy,\u201d said Dora Vargha, a historian at the University of Exeter. \u201cLooking back, we have a weak narrative. For whom does the epidemic end, and who gets to say?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/10\/health\/coronavirus-plague-pandemic-history.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/00VIRUS-HISTORY5.jpg?fit=1800%2C1199&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52834,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52834","url_meta":{"origin":23934,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Spatial Worlds of Medieval Central Europe: Real, Imagined, and Conceptual&#8221;, Budapest, 19\u201321 May 2027","author":"Filip \u0160imunjak","date":"6. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Following successful conferences in Budapest (2014), Olomouc (2016), Zagreb (2018), Gda\u0144sk (2021), Bratislava (2023), and Munich (2025), the Seventh Biennial Conference of MECERN (http:\/\/mecern.eu\/) will focus on spatial worlds in medieval history, especially in Central Europe. 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