World War II's Warsaw Ghetto Holds Lifesaving Lessons for COVID-19 - Scientific American

World War II's Warsaw Ghetto Holds Lifesaving Lessons for COVID-19 - Scientific American

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“The story of a community in these conditions, under threat from both man and disease, still coming together to make and adhere to policies to help better their chances of all surviving together is exactly the sort of understanding and hope we need.”

Mathematical epidemiologist Nina Fefferman says that we can learn from how hygiene, quarantine and social-distancing measures halted a typhus outbreak in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Second World War, as we craft public-health responses to COVID-19. (Scientific American | 6 min read)