How An Unlikely Cohort of Black Nurses at a New York Sanatorium Helped Cure Tuberculosis

Published: Sept. 12, 2023, 2 a.m.

Nearly a century before the COVID-19 pandemic upended life as we know it, a devastating tuberculosis epidemic was ravaging hospitals across the country. In those dark, pre-antibiotic days, the disease claimed the lives of 1 in 7 Americans; in the...