One thing I've found by taking a *quantitative* look at infectious disease mortality is that there is a misalignment between which diseases get the spotlight in the history books and which were the worst killers. (Unsurprising in retrospect.)
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Even among diseases that were major killers, such as tuberculosis, it's easy to get the history wrong.
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If you briefly skim a history of TB, you might get the impression that it was solved by antibiotics—and this is true, but the mortality rate had already declined a lot by that point! (“Chemotherapy” on this chart means antibiotics)pic.twitter.com/et97CbBcs1
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This is why I'm researching infectious diseases and our weapons against them from a quantitative view right now. To get my summary and conclusions, follow me or subscribe to
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