In case you got confused or were curious about some of the past lives that were briefer, here is a timeline of the plagues, epidemics, and pandemics in the story:
2700BC – Yamnaya (present-day Russia) – unknown (presumed pneumonic plague)
165-180 – Rome, Italy – Antonine Plague (presumed smallpox)
1352 – Morstadt, Burgandy – Bubonic Plague
1793 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – Yellow Fever outbreak
1817-1824 – Calcutta, India – First Cholera Epidemic
1918 – San Francisco, California, USA – Spanish Influenza
1944 – Japanese-American internment camp, California, USA – not specific, but there were outbreaks of typhoid fever, smallpox, whooping cough, flu, diphtheria, and tuberculosis
1985 – Los Angeles, California, USA – AIDS Epidemic
2001 – West Hills, California, USA – Measles outbreak
2020 – Brentwood, California, USA – COVID-19 Pandemic