Stupid Then, Stupid Now — Typhoid 1911 and Coronavirus, 2020 Posted on May 3, 2020 by rblumenthal How New Yorkers reacted to the Typhoid Epidemics of 1911 and 1913 — and what we can learn today from their mistakes. https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-new-yorks-badly-learned-epidemic-lesson-led-to-a-second-lethal-outbreak