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The Pandemic Is Following a Very Predictable and Depressing Pattern - The Atlantic, March 4, 2022

Published: 4 March 2022

Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and past McGill Global Health Programs Director co-wrote a piece in The Atlantic on the different paths Covid-19 is taking in high and lower-income countries.

"As with diseases such as malaria and HIV, rich countries are moving on from COVID while poor ones continue to get ravaged.
Americans, by and large, are putting the pandemic behind them. Now that Omicron is in the rearview mirror and cases are plummeting, even many of those who have stayed cautious for two full years are spouting narratives about “going back to normal” and “living with COVID-19.”

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