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arly in the pandemic it was the blunt tools of past centuries that saved the most lives. , by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, dives into the crudely effective and widely abused strategy of quarantine, the separation of those feared to be sick from those deemed healthy. The authors trace formal quarantine back to 14th-century Dubrovnik, in response to the Black Death. With emerging diseases on the rise, quarantine is back for good, the authors warn,

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