People interested in materials they might use in their classroom concerning concerning historical backdrops to the pandemic might be interested in this collection:

A Bibliography of Historians’ Responses to COVID-19

https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/everything-has-a-history/a-bibliography-of-historians-responses-to-covid-19

Here’s the lead for the collection:

As the novel coronavirus began to spread in the United States, people across the country turned to historians for crucial insights regarding the history of epidemics and pandemics. From the Black Death in the 14th century to the 1918 flu, historians have drawn from a wealth of historical material to illustrate the range of human, governmental, societal, and scientific responses to massive disease outbreaks over time. As the COVID-19 crisis continued to unfold, historians were quick to assess the economic, political, and social fallout from the pandemic as it took its devastating toll on American life. The American Historical Association is compiling a professionally vetted bibliography of historians’ responses to COVID-19 as a resource for the public, teachers, and scholars seeking historical perspectives on the current crisis and its local and global impacts.