What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About Infectious Disease

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COVID-19 is bad. There’s no way to sugar coat it. The virus has killed thousands, caused vast economic disruption, and left millions suffering from new or exacerbated mental illness.

But the battle against COVID-19 may have some silver linings; and one of them is how much we have learned about infectious disease in general, and about how to deal with and fight it. Here are…