Robin Abcarian: Two years and counting: What the pandemic has taught us about ourselves
Has it really been two years since life as we knew it came to a screeching halt?
In the third week of March 2020, I stood on a friend's porch, speculating that "this thing" would probably be over in a month or two.
"I think it's going to last at least until September," he said.
"Oh, God, I hope you're wrong," I answered.
Unfortunately, he was.
Now here we are, despite extraordinary advances in our understanding of the coronavirus and the development of new vaccines to fight it, still battling COVID-19, with no end in sight.
Nearly have died from COVID-19. Globally, more than 6 million souls have been infected, and many have fallen terribly ill, with lasting consequences that have yet to be fully understood. The Pew Research Group recently found that say they know someone who has been hospitalized or died as a result of COVID.
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