'The start of a pandemic is determined by biology, the end by politics'
Much of what’s been written about the ends of epidemics is the work of historians, not of epidemiologists or virologists. Numbers of cases are generally not their principal interest. Charles Rosenberg, for example, looked for patterns in how societies acted and how this changed over the course of an epidemic.
Instead of a clear endpoint, there’s a"drift toward closure." The"drift" begins when the urgency of a disease outbreak has sufficiently diminished so that publicshifts to the problems it left in its wake, or the underlying problems it brought to the surface. As historians Charters and Heitman note:
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