We should revisit the covid-19 pandemic to organize for future outbreaks

Sure, it actually has been 5 years. On 7 January 2020, we revealed an article with the headline “Doctors scramble to identify mysterious illness emerging in China”. By then, no less than 59 individuals had been contaminated with what we now know to be SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind covid-19. The remainder is – effectively, has now develop into – historical past.

After all, all of that: you lived by it. So why are we publishing a particular report on covid-19 now? For a lot of, the peak of the pandemic was an extremely painful and tough time (see “How the covid-19 pandemic distorted our experience of time”…