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Sure, it actually has been 5 years. On 7 January 2020, we printed an article with the headline “Doctors scramble to identify mysterious illness emerging in China”. By then, not less than 59 individuals had been contaminated with what we now know to be SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind covid-19. The remaining is – properly, has now change into – historical past.
After all, you recognize all of that: you lived by it. So why are we publishing a particular report on covid-19 now? For a lot of, the peak of the pandemic was an extremely painful and troublesome time (see “How the covid-19 pandemic distorted our experience of time”…
