Rivka Galchen · Whack-a-Mole: Anti-Vax Sentiments · LRB 27 January 2022
In the late 1840s, the Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis oversaw two free maternity clinics in Vienna. The clinics accepted patients on alternate days. At the first clinic the mortality rate was 10 per cent; at the second, it was 4 per …
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