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Get Well Soon

12 min read 16 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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What’s it about?

A darkly hilarious tour of history's worst plagues, revealing how disease shaped humanity—and how we survive the unsurvivable.

You’ll learn

  • Why fear often kills faster than germs
  • How plagues toppled empires and sparked revolutions
  • The bizarre cures that made things worse
  • Why resilience is humanity's superpower