The Original Sin of America's COVID-19 Response
Philip Cheung / The New York Times / Redux The coronavirus pandemic may be in its final stage in the U.S. But it will not be the last pandemic of the 21st century. Since the turn of the century, SARS-CoV-2 is already the second virus to create a pandemic (the first was the H1N1 influenza in 2009) and the third coronavirus outbreak, following the first SARS crisis in 2003 and the emergence of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, also known as MERS, in 2012. If the U.S. can expect roughly one global plague every 10 years, it will have to do better than it did over the past 12 months, when it sh...
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