The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant two days after a meltdown forced a temporary closure of the plant. Bettmann/Bettmann Archive hide caption
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Pandemics like the coronavirus "serve like looking glasses" that reflect society's vulnerabilities, author and Yale medical historian Frank Snowden says. Agence Photographique BSIP/Getty Images hide caption
Medical Historian Says Pandemics Are 'Looking Glasses' For Societies
Tuesday
World Health Organization leaders at a press briefing on COVID-19, held on March 6 at WHO headquarters in Geneva. Here's a look at its history, its mission and its role in the current crisis. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit a new milestone, surpassing the number of Americans who died in the prolonged conflict with Vietnam. Here, the Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, N.Y., holds a vigil for medical workers and patients who have died in the pandemic. John Nacion/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
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Ocean Beach in San Francisco, Calif., as seen on March 25. Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
'Why We Swim' Looks For Answers In People And Places Across The Globe
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An illustration of an American home bathroom from 1884 J.L. Mott Iron Works/New York Public Library hide caption
How Infectious Disease Shaped American Bathroom Design
Aerial view of one of the burst dikes on the Mississippi River, April 1927. ullstein bild Dtl./ullstein bild via Getty Images hide caption
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The chamber of the House of Representatives is seen at the Capitol in Washington. Leaders are discussing next steps for how to conduct business like voting and committee hearings during the coronavirus pandemic. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
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Attendees at a January rally at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson called for the state to close the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, where a number of deaths have occurred. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption
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Lynne Gist stands at her sister's chair in the Field of Empty Chairs at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum on Wednesday. Gist lost her sister, Karen Gist Carr, when a truck bomb ripped through a federal building in downtown Oklahoma City and killed 168 people 25 years ago. Sue Ogrocki/AP hide caption
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Robin Radaetz holds a sign in front of the Lehman Brothers headquarters in 2008 in New York. Lehman Brothers' Chapter 11 declaration was the biggest bankruptcy filing ever at the time. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption
Lessons From Congress' Last Experience Helping Rescue An Economy In Free Fall
Adult female mosquitoes are seen under a microscope at the Sun Yat-Sen University-Michigan University Joint Center of Vector Control for Tropical Disease on June 21, 2016 in Guangzhou, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images hide caption
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Joe Newman, 107, hugs his fiancée, Anita Sampson, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday with a party over Zoom. ABC Action News hide caption
For Centenarian Survivor Of 1918 Flu Pandemic, Coronavirus Is Just Another 'Problem'
