Plague and Cholera and Corona. Epidemics in History

The corona pandemic has triggered not only a medical, but also a global social crisis. The number of people infected or dead is rapidly growing across the world. The media call it a sea change and report on how the world will be transformed after corona. In his DHM blog, the historian Robert Kluth takes a look at the pandemic and asks how such epidemics as the plague and cholera have given rise to social achievements in the past.