If only we had been willing to pay attention, nearly everything we needed to know to get through the Covid pandemic was right there before us.
A pathogen that lodges in people’s airways and damages their lungs beyond repair naturally thrives in cramped and ill-ventilated quarters where the poorest might live. Tools to fight it — vaccines, drugs — will be easily available in some parts of the globe, but out of reach of millions who need them elsewhere. The governments of most nations will bungle the most straightforward of public health messages and bury their heads in the sand as thousands die every day.
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