The Year in COVID focuses on how a novel virus that began as a marketplace sickness became a global health crisis â and the worst in American history. What lessons have we learned as we enter the vaccination phase of the pandemic? This episode includes Dr. William Haseltine, a renowned global health expert and president of ACCESS Health International Dr. Kirstin Matthews, Fellow in Science and Technology Policy at Rice University's Baker Institute. The photo gallery above contains the original captions to present a time capsule of our understanding, and progression, of COVID-19. Town Square with Ernie Manouse is a gathering space for the community to come together and discuss the day's most important and pressing issues.