A tiny, spiky, “crown”-wearing virus is, almost with sentience, continuing to upend the most carefully-made calculations and predictions by healthcare experts, governments and societies.
Cities have been locked down, reopened, then locked down again; epidemiologists’ estimates of peaks and community transmission rates keep changing; the nature of immunity bestowed by antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus is being debated; the global economy is in turmoil and wondering if the cure may be worse than the disease – the list of uncertainties is long.