of COVID-19, though at the time the novel coronavirus hadn’t yet been named.
“The breadth of how severe this virus is and how it just could, quite frankly, bring the world to its knees, wasn’t appreciated,” said Bogoch, adding that early signs suggested it would spread beyond China, but it was difficult to say how far and how aggressively. “We’ve probably gone through about 20 dog years in one,” he said. While the health care community learned a lot during the first wave of the pandemic in the spring, the exponential toll that the year has had on him and his coworkers can’t be understated, he added.
When this is over (sometime in the next 10 years perhaps) there be any poor people left?