The enemy within: the year of coronavirus
On New Year’s Eve 2019, a mysterious pneumonia strain was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan. We could never have imagined then the devastating impact it was going to have on the world in the ensuing months
In almost 15 years of writing about health and medicine, I thought I had heard and seen it all. I have covered stories of national and international significance, unimaginable scandals and heartbreaking tragedies.
But when reports of a mysterious pneumonia with a high fatality rate emerged from China early in the new year, little did any of us know that we would ring out 2020 firmly in the grip of a novel coronavirus that had ...
