Well, Now: Life After Lockdown

Published: March 13, 2024, 7 a.m.

b'On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization named Covid-19 a pandemic, and public health around the globe changed forever.\\xa0\\nCountries shut down their borders, businesses closed and furloughed workers, and millions of students went to remote learning. Two years in, more than one million Americans lost their lives.\\nThis week on Well, Now we mark this grim anniversary by talking about what we have and haven\\u2019t learned about this world-changing virus with one of the epidemiologists who first began sounding the alarm about Covid-19: Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding.\\nPodcast production by Vic Whitley-Berry with editorial oversight by Alicia Montgomery.\\nSend your comments and recommendations on what to cover to wellnow@slate.com.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'