Epidemics through the decades: Jon Snow on 50 years reporting on the viruses that changed the world

He can’t go out… but he can look back. Jon Snow has delivered the news for nearly 50 years but even as Channel 4’s longest running presenter, this is the first time he’s ever done so from home. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

Using the Channel 4 News and ITN archives, Jon Snow uses the current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to reflect on outbreaks through history, as witnessed through the lens of a television news camera.

Channel 4 reported from around the world during the aids epidemic, followed the Britain’s turmoil over mad cow disease and watched on as SARS, Swine Flu and Bird Flu made their way across the globe to British shores.

This is what Jon Snow knows about virus epidemics.

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