Adapting to post-pandemic life will require remembering COVID-19

Adapting to post-pandemic life will require remembering COVID-19

Adria L. Imada, UCI professor of history writes, “Yet the recent history of medical quarantine cautions that there will be no return to a pre-pandemic normal, no matter how fast and effective biomedical cures and vaccine rollouts are. That’s because, while stringent public health measures may ease, the stigma, loss and memory of suffering persist. We can learn from our individual and collective pandemic experiences, rather than leave them behind.”