Simon Schama on lessons learned from pandemics through history

Simon Schama is a prolific historian who has chronicled subjects, including the French Revolution, Rembrandt and America’s place in the world. Schama joins Washington Post senior writer Frances Stead Sellers to discuss his latest book, “Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations,” which details lessons from the coronavirus outbreak and pandemics in earlier centuries.
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