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What most surprised experts about the Covid pandemic - STAT

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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.

P eople who study infectious diseases and who work in public health have long known a bad pandemic would one day come. They knew such an event would overwhelm hospitals, strain supply chains, and place stresses on society that we would be ill-equipped to meet. Countries like the United States have for decades prepared to respond to such a crisis. Advertisement But despite all the planning, the Covid-19 pandemic has, in myriad ways, not played out as expected. Three years after the first reports of a novel virus emerged from China, these experts admit that the microbe and the world’s response t

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