Opinion: To defeat Covid-19, we must acknowledge the fear it engenders

My career as a hospital epidemiologist has been based on science and evidence, which I believed to be the touchstones of my work. But Covid-19 has taught me that fear — gut-wrenching, all-consuming fear, like the fear of dying from a horrific respiratory virus — can be much more powerful than science.

We can’t conquer this fear unless we acknowledge and respect it.

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