Different era, different urgency. mumps never abruptly collapsed the global economy.

Here's some technology backstory:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...r-than-years1/



Current events: multiple vaccines in development with some in trails, and hopes of rushed deployment (precedent for that was an ebola vaccine used in 2018):

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/europ...ntl/index.html

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...iotech-reports




The counterpoint is here, although this media outlet seems to be extremely agenda driven towards negativity on any hope of recovery (may be hoping for a new world order):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...d-vaccine.html