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'People Will Bounce Back': How COVID-19 Parallels Past Pandemics

Clinical psychologist Steven Taylor discusses his book "The Psychology of Pandemics" and shares how the COVID-19 pandemic parallels past pandemics.
Times Square area near 42nd Street in New York City. This photo is circa 1920s. (AP Photo)

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Steven Taylor is a clinical psychologist and professor in the psychiatry department at the University of British Columbia. In October 2019, Taylor published a book called “The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease.”

And it’s kind of an interesting story there, because when he wrote the book and first tried to get it published, no

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