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We examine the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic’s explosion in the New York Metropolitan Region from the perspective of both historical trajectory and Holling (Ann Rev Ecol Syst 4:1–23, 1973) ideas of ‘ecosystem resilience’ transitions, akin to the eutrophication of a pristine lake by sewage runoff Without significant alteration in ‘upstream’ policies and power relations driving pandemic emergence, the US Empire appears to be entering a period of ‘Justinian Plagues’ similar to those that decimated the Roman Empire © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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