Listen: What We’ve Learned After Two Years of the Pandemic
CNN’s Brian Stelter marks the two-year anniversary of the pandemic on his “ in conversation with KHN Editor-in-Chief Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal and James Hamblin, a former staff writer at The Atlantic. The journalists discuss how society grappled with the trauma of the covid-19 pandemic and the governmental missteps that compounded that trauma.
“Everyone has experienced the suffering of the pandemic in his or her or their own way,� said Rosenthal, “and so much of it feels unnecessary had we had a strong national response.� In particular, Rosenthal cited the failure to track health care workers lost on the front line and toxic politics that undermined public health agencies throughout the country.