STAT News – Biotech
Opinion: Covid followed 5 standard stages of pandemic response — until it became unprecedented
Six years after the Covid shutdown of March 2020, the nation is still struggling to recover from a trauma that has become deeply politicized. Despite a powerful urge to forget, the pandemic remains a constant influence on the American psyche and American policy.
President Donald Trump in 2025 picked up right where he left off in 2020, hell-bent on bringing to heel the scientific and medical establishments that so often defied him during Covid.