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References

Afred W. Crosby, America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Comparing current Covid-19 mortality with estimates for 1918-19 of 50 million globally and 500,000 for the U.S. Crosby, America’s Forgotten Pandemic; Siddharth Chandra, “Pandemics that changed the World. Historical Reflections on Covid-19,” Journal of Global History (forthcoming). It is important not to neglect analysis of Africa, Asia and Latin America, as public-health levels and education levels in those regions continue to advance.
For a narrative of global social change since 1900 in the context of an analysis of institutional evolution since early times, see Patrick Manning, A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 235–55.
“Wealthiest Hospitals got Billions in Bailout,” New York Times, 25 May 2020; Pamela Herd and Donald P. Moynihan, “The Coronavirus Stimulus is Playing Hard to Get,” New York Times, 13 April 2020.

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