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Covid Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades - The New York Times

Covid Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades - The New York Times

Covid Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades - The New York Times
Oct 14, 2021 1 min, 7 secs

“We tend to think of pandemics and epidemics as episodic,” said Allan Brandt, a historian of science and medicine at Harvard University.

Especially in the months before the Delta variant became dominant, the pandemic seemed like it should be nearly over.

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

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