Back in late 2019, the staff at Science News began planning how to celebrate our 100th birthday. We could tell the story of our founding, invite longtime readers to share their memories and, of course, look back at all that has changed in science. At the time, we had no idea that pandemics would bookend the magazine’s first century.
Science News launched its first news bulletins in April 1921, not long after the 1918 pandemic ended. That historical context wasn’t on our radar until the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Suddenly, reviewing a century of advances in infectious diseases became essential to our centennial coverage.
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