After the pandemic is before the pandemic – the lessons of Corona

One would think that a catastrophe like the Spanish flu a hundred years ago was indelibly imprinted on human memory. But far from it: the corona pandemic caught us on the wrong foot.  The  reaction was much too slow.  The  preparations were inadequate, there was a lack of protective equipment. To date, we have not got the situation under control.  The  only bright spot are the vaccines.

We will have to prepare for a return of the epidemics and sharpen our precautions. What’s next for us? What can we do, what must we do?  The  NZZ editor-in-chief is talking about coping with the Covid 19 crisis and possible next pandemics Eric Gujer with the ETH biostatistician and mathematician Tanja Stadler.