‘This is gonna be bad’: An oral history of the early days of COVID-19

What started as an outbreak of viral pneumonia that infected dozens of people in a city in central China has grown into a pandemic that has killed nearly one million people in the United States alone.
In a new series of stories called “Life during COVID,” Healio will speak with experts to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped American medicine and society, the lessons it has taught us and whether we are prepared for the next “pathogen X.”
For the first installment of the series, we asked infectious disease physicians and other experts about their memories of

What started as an outbreak of viral pneumonia that infected dozens of people in a city in central China has grown into a pandemic that has killed nearly one million people in the United States alone.
In a new series of stories called “Life during COVID,” Healio will speak with experts to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped American medicine and society, the lessons it has taught us and whether we are prepared for the next “pathogen X.”
For the first installment of the series, we asked infectious disease physicians and other experts about their memories of