John Snow, Henry Whitehead, and the Broad Street Pump

It’s been a while, hunh? Well here’s a short post on what I’m reading.
I’m reading The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, and it concerns the cholera outbreak in the Soho area of London in 1854.
If you’re an epidemiologist, you’ve heard of John Snow and you know about the Broad Street pump. This outbreak [...]

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Happy New Year!

Sorry I haven’t posted in ages.  But you understand, I think, that there’s been lots of traveling, and even a little bit of work.
I’m not posting anything major today, but would urge you all to amuse yourself by going to ‘Wait, wait, don’t tell me!‘ and listening to an episode or two.
Hope you all had [...]

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