A saying attributed to Mark Twain goes something like this: History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

In 1731, despite smallpox killing one out of every 13 Bostonians, there was strong resistance to inoculation, which, like the modern COVID-19 vaccines, was based on new science.

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