Benjamin Netanyahu won Israel’s unprecedented third election yesterday and is expected to be able to form a ruling coalition quickly. Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Joe Biden last night at campaign events in Dallas on the eve of Super Tuesday. And a tornado smashed into Nashville early this morning, killing at least two people.
A month ago, these stories would have dominated the news. But not today.
Four more patients in Washington state died of coronavirus yesterday. A patient in San Antonio, Texas, was mistakenly released from isolation Saturday by the CDC before her lab results tested positive for coronavirus. She visited a mall and a hotel before she was quarantined again. And the World Health Organization reported that a dog in Hong Kong tested positive for the virus. They are urging those infected to restrict contact with pets and other animals.
The Louvre in Paris has been closed due to coronavirus fears. A major car show in Geneva, Switzerland, has been canceled. Nike closed its European headquarters in the Netherlands after an employee was infected with coronavirus; the campus will be sanitized before reopening.
I’ve been studying pandemics from medical and historical perspectives. This morning, we’ll look at some of what I’ve discovered, then focus on a biblical principle of urgent significance today.
“The worldwide spread of a new disease”
The World Health Organization (WHO) describes a pandemic as “the worldwide spread of a new disease.” By this description, we are witnessing several pandemics today.
The WHO estimates that there were 228 million cases of malaria worldwide in 2018, with 405,000 deaths. Almost half the world’s population—about 3.2 billion people—are at risk. The disease kills a child every two minutes.
According to Dr. Christian W. McMillen’s excellent introduction to pandemics, cholera is in its seventh…
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