Jack London saw this coming. Why didn’t we?  

Jack London saw this coming. Why didn’t we?
In 1910 the California author, already famous for “The Call of the Wild” and “White Fang,” wrote a short post-apocalyptic novel about a 21st century pandemic in his home state. To revisit “The Scarlet Plague” during the COVID-19 crisis is to marvel at how much London understood—a century ago—about the challenges we face now.
London imagined a global epidemic in the year 2013 that killed almost every