"The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology" Edward O. Wilson (2009).
Some General Readings
Pale Rider by Laura Spinney, 2018 - A study of the Spanish flu pandemic, 1918-20, which killed between 50 and 100 million people, and infected over 500 million people, world-wide.
The End of Epidemics by Jonathan Quick, 2018 - Some lessons on how global institutions can best coordinate to predict, model and prevent future pandemics.