History tells us trying to stop diseases like COVID-19 at the border is a failed strategy
- Written by Charles McCoy, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY Plattsburgh
A traveler walks past screeners testing a system of thermal imaging cameras which check body temperatures at Los Angeles International Airport on June. 24, 2020.Mario Tama/Getty ImagesTo explain why the coronavirus pandemic is much worse in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world, commentators have blamed the federal government’s mismanagedr...
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