Yellow Fever hit New York City in the late eighteenth century. The Big Apple population at the time was 60,000 and over the course of five years, eight percent of those New Yorkers succumbed to the disease (or related malfeasance). Adjust that ratio for 2022 and the death count would approach 675,000. Yellow fever is […]
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