Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About Covid
The second influential publication to dismiss the possibility of a lab leak was a letter published in early 2020 in The Lancet. The letter, which described the idea as a…
What Covid Taught Us
When the pandemic upended our lives five years ago today, it gave researchers a rare chance to learn more about who we are and how we live. The entire world…
History Isn’t Entirely Repeating Itself in Covid’s Aftermath
Five years after Covid-19 shut down activities all over the world, medical historians sometimes struggle to place the pandemic in context. What, they are asking, should this ongoing viral threat…
Opinion | Covid’s Deadliest Effect Took Five Years to Appear
The first Trump administration deserves fair praise for accelerating the development of these vaccines through Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership. But it was the private sector that prevailed and…
Covid’s Long-Term Effects on the Lungs, Gut, Brain and More
Five years — and hundreds of millions of cases — after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic, scientists are getting a clearer picture of how the virus can…
For a Family That Lost 5 Loved Ones, ‘Covid Will Never Be Over’
The quality that made the tightly knit Fusco family great was the very thing that exacted the harshest price. Two dozen or so relatives had gathered five years ago for…
French Cinema Celebrates Its Covid Recovery
Ronald Chammah, who owns a pair of small cinemas on the Left Bank of Paris, remembers well the grim days in 2022, when he wondered whether the French passion for…
COVID-19 in Context: A Retrospective View | naked capitalism
Yves here. Even with having been attentive to Covid studies and news, KLG’s overview contains quite a few information nuggets that were new to me. For instance, the UK quickly…
It’s Been 5 Years Since Covid Hit. Do You Travel Differently Now?
Those dark days began almost five years ago. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic, and four days later, U.S. states began to order shutdowns…
Covid Learning Losses
Schoolchildren in Massachusetts, Ohio and Pennsylvania are still about half a year behind typical pre-Covid reading levels. In Florida and Michigan, the gap is about three-quarters of a year. In…