Pandemic anniversary: COVID-19 lessons after year two
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COVID-19’s enormous scope has resulted in an unprecedented torrent of knowledge. CTVNews.ca interviewed five medical experts who specialize in infectious diseases, immunology, and epidemiology for their insights into the lessons learned in the second year of the pandemic.
COVID-19’s enormous scope has resulted in an unprecedented torrent of knowledge. CTVNews.ca interviewed five medical experts who specialize in infectious diseases, immunology, and epidemiology for their insights into the lessons learned in the second year of the pandemic.
COVID-19 reached every corner of the world. More than 450 million cases have been officially counted, but actual figures are likely significantly higher, particularly after Omicron cases exploded and testing could no longer keep up. More than six million people died, and even that stark figure is widely believed to be undercounted as well. Those numbers will continue to climb.
The scale of the pandemic underscored the urgency with which scientists, health-care workers and global leaders had to act in order to contain the virus.
“There's some tremendous lessons that were learned. We've really seen an explosion of discovery,” Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist with the University Health Network and an associate professor at the University of Toronto, told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview.
