Helen Branswell
If you have some reading time this weekend, please consider putting this piece of mine on your reading list. I asked a bunch of experts what they hadn't anticipated about the pandemic. The list is long. https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/27/covid19-pandemic-what-most-surprised-experts/
Three years on, the pandemic — and our response — have been jolting. Here's what even the experts didn't see coming

In the hope that lessons for the next pandemic can be found in the things we didn’t anticipate this time, STAT asked 23 experts what had surprised them the most.

STAT
Dec 30, 2022 at 9:15pmWeb
Show threadltmcdiesDec 30, 2022
@HelenBranswell excellent article. And it feels like it's been much longer than 3 years 😩
Show threadEdHamiltonDec 30, 2022
@HelenBranswell Thank you.
Show threadAthanasiusDec 31, 2022
@HelenBranswell great article!
Show threadJeri DanskyDec 31, 2022
@HelenBranswell I read this last night — an excellent summary of our past three years. Thank you!
Show threadAlina HagenDec 31, 2022
@HelenBranswell
Excellent article. I think one other surprise is Long Covid and the difficulties in understanding and treating it.
Show threadGarth CoghlanDec 31, 2022

@alinagrafik
As someone who has suffered from a post-viral-illness (#mecfs) for 15 years, none of that was surprising at all!

@HelenBranswell

Show threadUnprecedented 2023Dec 31, 2022
@HelenBranswell Thanks for posting this article. 😪
Show threadJames Harris Jan 1, 2023
@HelenBranswell Excellent article, thank you!
Show threadSpatialmdlJan 1, 2023
@HelenBranswell
An excellent read
https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/27/covid19-pandemic-what-most-surprised-experts/
Three years on, the pandemic — and our response — have been jolting. Here's what even the experts didn't see coming

In the hope that lessons for the next pandemic can be found in the things we didn’t anticipate this time, STAT asked 23 experts what had surprised them the most.

STAT