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I wrote this piece for @statnews to mark the tricentennial of the start of the Great Plague of Provence, the last of the great* outbreaks of plague in W. Europe. I discuss some of the many parallels between the 1720 plague & the #COVID19 pandemic. THREAD statnews.com/2020/05/25/bub…
Today marks 300 years since the start of what I argue represents a major moment in the history of disaster mgmt. As the story goes, the Great Plague of Provence (aka Plague of Marseille) began in France #OnThisDay in 1720 with the arrival of the vessel, the Grand Saint-Antoine in
the port of Marseille. The ship had journeyed for a year in the Mediterranean collecting cargoes of fine imported goods destined for an annual trade fair. In that time, there had been a series of deaths on board, many with the telltale signs of bubonic plague,
