The way we were: News from a week in 2020

What do you remember of the news from the last week of February and the first day of March 2020? If you’re normal, not much. So let’s leave 2022 for a moment and refresh our memories. Let’s fall back into early 2020 and remember the way we were:

Monday, Feb. 24, 2020: “Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch is exacting in his diction, even for an epidemiologist. Twice in our conversation he started to say something, then paused and said, ‘Actually, let me start again.’ So it’s striking when one of the points he wanted to get exactly right was this: ‘I think the likely outcome is that it...