Disease used to be pictured as a demon or a devil to help people understand it. With coronavirus, we now have an actual picture of what it looks like, but that hasn’t stopped TV and other media from making it cartoonish.
NPR’s Neda Ulaby ( @ulabeast) reports on how we picture disease.
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