SARS-CoV-2 Archives - Dr. Hannah Sivak, PhD

We do feel baffled and confused. Why? What can we do about it? Learn as much as possible about what’s going on.

March 21st, 2020 by Dr. Hannah Sivak

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has changed the world. We are baffled, perplexed, disconcerted, confused. We never lived through a situation like we are living now. The closest it gets (for me) are the polio epidemics of 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953. Yes, year after year because epidemics (and pandemics) don’t disappear “miraculously”, although sometimes it sort of looks like it (more about this later). Although this pandemic had been predicted by so many epidemiologists and scientists, it still found us unprepared. This is shocking but not unexpected. Perhaps it’s human nature that if something it’s not happening now,…