Economic lessons from pandemics past

The World of Business by BBC

Apr 23, 202027:54Business

In the 14th century the world was devastated by plague, known as 'The Black Death', in the 20th century a deadly form of influenza struck infecting around a quarter of the world's population. Since then HIV, Ebola and mo...

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