How many months since

Health departments were expanding capacity for testing, tracing and surveillance. A multitude of multidisciplinary, academic teams were forming to understand COVID from microscopic-level virology all the way to population-level social implications. In fewer than five months, scientific literature database Scopus indexed more than 12, publications. Researchers started discovering long COVID symptoms and figuring out effective protective measures like social distancing and wearing a mask.

While the flood of evidence provided scientists and clinicians with critical information, a wave of retractions pulling papers with erroneous or unreliable data began to appear.

This, coupled with lack of accurate scientific communication from unbiased sources, fueled a concurrent infodemic — an epidemic of misinformation and public health threats that researchers, social media companies and public health officials are still learning how to identify, mitigate and treat. Then came winter, which proved to be a perfect storm of pandemic fatigue and holiday travel.

This resulted in our biggest pandemic wave yet. More than 3, people were dying per day in the U. Thankfully, help was on its way: vaccines. And not just pretty good vaccines — vaccines that blew efficacy out of the water. And, while the vaccine rollout was rough , more than million doses were administered by May in the U. With vaccines, though, came new challenges: a new fight against disinformation no, mRNA does not change your DNA and a struggle to understand breakthrough infections. Suboptimal genomic surveillance made it difficult to identify where and what variants were spreading.

The race between vaccination and variant spread was upon us. The fight was far from over. Early summer for Americans was blissful. The U. People who were vaccinated were told they could take off their masks , while some unvaccinated people took this carte blanche. More Americans started traveling again and getting back to working in person.

But then the delta variant knocked on the door. Significantly more transmissible and severe than the original strain of the coronavirus, it first created a tsunami of cases in the South that then spread to every corner of the United States. Unfortunately, pandemic fatigue has settled in. And the pandemic is pushing the U. Every epidemic curve comes down. And this one will too. But even after it comes down, the pandemic will still be far from over.

Families were robbed of proper funerals and goodbyes. We're a bit like the universe - forever expanding as time moves on day by day. We'll start by covering every possible date in the past that is calculable - and once we're absolutely awesome at doing that we'll move onto dating every event in history.

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