A photo taken at approximately 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, 2020, looking down a deserted 42nd Street just over a week after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic.
A photo taken at approximately 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, 2020, looking down a deserted 42nd Street just over a week after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. ( Photo: Vladislav Grubman/Wikimedia Commons)

Michael Oreskes wrote about the pandemic for Straus News and the Daily News, among other publications. Five years after COVID-19 was declared a worldwide pandemic, he looks back on the role health officials, government, and media played as the virus spread, eventually killing more than 1.1 million Americans.

Communicating the Pandemic
19 Mar 2025 | 10:59
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I still remember the chill I felt watching Dr. Demetre Daskalakis in that video. “It’s already here,” he was saying, like the scientist in a sci-fi film warning that the alien invasion was underway.

It was the 10th of March, 2020. The Novel Coronavirus had been spreading since some time late the year...

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