Spanish Influenza - the Story of the Epidemic That Swept America From the Newspaper Reports of 1918 by Ken Rossignol, 2020
This telling of the story of the Spanish Flu of 1918 is best told and understood from the newspaper reports of publications large and small from every corner of the United States.
The news reports have been picked at random with an emphasis on selecting news articles that told of effects in the rural, small towns, cities, army camps, navy yards, with armed forces deployed at sea and in France as well as on Indian Reservations.
Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks by Caitlin Rivers, PhD, 2024
A fascinating window into the secret life of epidemiology, weaving together stories of triumph and tragedy, with a boots-on-the-ground perspective on how we can avert the next public health crisis.
The "Costs of War" project, based at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, estimates that the total death toll in post-9/11 wars – including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen – could be at least 4.5-4.7 million:
Stephanie Savell (2023) https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeaths