Pandemic Mail: Reimagining the role of the USPS during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic by looking to the past.

The article discusses the role of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics include utilize postal infrastructure to curb the spread of the disease to offer mail-in testing for under-resourced regions and to map requests for the vaccine as a way of tracking new smallpox cases; and history of the National Vaccine Institute and its reliance on the U.S. States Post Office Department offers an entry point into considering the role of the postal service.