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Yes, it really has been five years. We published it on January 7, 2020 an article With the title “Doctors struggle to identify mysterious diseases emerging in China.” By then, at least 59 people had been infected with what we know as SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind covid-19. The rest – well, it has now become – is history.
You know all this, of course: you experienced it. So why are we publishing a special report on covid-19 now? For many, the time of the pandemic was extremely painful and difficult (see “How the Covid-19 pandemic distorted our experience of time”…