Jeremy Greene, a historian of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
And that is a lesson from history that is often forgotten, Frank Snowden, a historian of medicine at Yale University, said: how difficult it is to declare that a pandemic has ended.If nothing else, the Covid-19 virus has humbled experts who once confidently predicted its course, disregarding the lessons of history.Greene said — a dismay that has grown out of frustration with the inability to control the virus, fury of the vaccinated at those who refuse to get the shots and a disillusionment that astoundingly effective vaccines haven’t yet returned life to normal.
“A pandemic like Covid-19 is a breach of the progressive narrative,” that medicine is advancing and diseases are being conquered, Dr.Brandt said, “there were conspiracy theories and a lot of misinformation, but it never had a broadcast system like Covid-19.”.
Snowden said
Jonathan Moreno, a historian of science and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, said the end of Covid would be analogous to a cancer that has gone into remission — still there, but not as deadly