Pandemic

Coronavirus in Society

The coronavirus pandemic is a disaster foretold. Pandemics have followed humans since ancient times.

Bilde av hall med pasienter rammet av spanskesyken

Pandemics affects the society in many ways. This is from a ward at Camp Funston at Fort Riley, Kansas, during the Spanish flu pandemic (1918).

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Despite many warnings that it was only a matter of time before a new rapidly- spreading and dangerous infection would occur, the coronavirus pandemic caught the authorities off guard in almost every country in the world. It has revealed a great lack of knowledge about how to limit and manage the spread of infection. It also reveals a lack of knowledge about how the pandemic affects our society in other ways.

The Pandemic Centre wants to contribute knowledge about pandemics, and how they affect society. On this page you will be able to find information about pandemics; both research-articles and other dissemination on the subject.

Medieval leprosy – in retrospect

How do we interpret past pandemics? A recent book chapter examines how medieval leprosy was reinterpreted and reinvented for the modern world.

Covid-19: The Road to Equity and Solidarity

BCEPS collaborator Jesse B. Bump of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is lead author of two important articles, published as part of BMJ's Covid-19 collection, The Road to Equity and Solidarity.

Immune failure can cause serious COVID-19

Persons with critical corona-disease may have antibodies blocking the body´s most important defence mechanisms.

03.03.2023