With the CDC set to end the 5-day isolation period for Covid, as well as rates of disease transmission spiking in Ukraine and Gaza, I thought it a poignant time to explore the history of one of the world’s most infectious diseases: tuberculosis.
In her book, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, and in conversation, author Maria Smilios traces the twists and turns of the journey to curing TB, and why too many people still go without treatment today.
