American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 by John Fabian Witt

Abstract

At the time of writing, the coronavirus known as COVID-19 has swept across the world and affected nearly every aspect of daily life as we know it. Canada has had approximately 20 thousand deaths and about 780 thousand total cases and the United States has had over 400 thousand deaths and more than 25 million total cases.