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I would be lying if I said I’m not overjoyed that the dateline appearing on this article says something other than 2020. It was a rough year, to one degree or another, for all of us. But as much as I would love to view 2021 as a close to the trials and tribulations of 2020, I also know that even though the calendar has flipped, we’re not out of the pandemic-wracked woods yet. With the US FDA approvals of two COVID-19 vaccines late last year, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but we’re still traveling through it.
SARS-CoV-2 wrought so much damage in 2020—economies hobbled, businesses obliterated, families divided, lives lost—that it’s hard to see silver linings. But the fact that the scientific community was able to understand, treat, and eventually vaccinate against the virus within 12 months is ...
