SARS-CoV-2

While I’ve given in to social Covid fatigue at the classroom level, I have now decided — more than five years after the SARS-CoV-2 virus reached U.S. shores — that we need to muster the energy to reflect on the pandemic and extract a few lasting messages to help us rethink many aspects of science, and the world.

Lastly, along with the technical arenas outlined above, the pandemic also taught us that the most revealing lessons may have little to do with the SARS-CoV-2 virus or any details that deal with the basic science of infectious disease.

When the SARS-CoV-2 virus first began spreading across the globe five years ago, some predicted that it could take five years for things to recover.

And that people continue to die from, and be disabled by, SARS-CoV-2 infection without any movement to change the situation.

So we really don't know how many people are being killed as a result of past or current infection with SARS-CoV-2.