Medieval Europeans didn’t understand how the plague spread. Their response wasn’t so different from ours now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/coronavirus-plague-europe/2020/10/14/286af29c-07e9-11eb-8719-0df159d14794_story.html

Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli

Washington Post

October 15, 2020