2 January 2025

COVID’s Lessons Have All Been Forgotten

ANTARA HALDAR

In December 2019, as the world was looking ahead to a new year, a novel virus was quietly spreading in China, having most likely made the leap from animals to humans in a Wuhan “wet market.” Soon, the COVID-19 pandemic would bring the world to a grinding halt, forcing billions of people into unprecedented lockdowns and shuttering economies worldwide. Five years on, we are still grappling with the effects of this “gray rhino”: a high-probability risk that was nonetheless neglected or ignored.

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