diff --git a/ea/PastPandemics.md b/ea/PastPandemics.md index c44d853..3bc47fc 100644 --- a/ea/PastPandemics.md +++ b/ea/PastPandemics.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Past pandemics -I've been reading about pandemics. The method was reading through this Wikipedia list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics, and miscellaneous sources. The limitations of the method was that this list has a bias towards epidemics in the English-speaking world, that som +I've been reading about pandemics. The method was reading through this Wikipedia list: [List of pandemics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics), and miscellaneous sources. The limitations of the method was that this list has a bias towards epidemics in the English-speaking world, that som e of their figures were wrong, and that towards the end it tends to consider smallish pandemics. Moreover, there weren't that many times whe re a disease was introduced to a new population *and* it had a low fatality rate (influenza being the chief example).