CNN鈥檚 Brian Stelter marks the two-year anniversary of the pandemic on his “ in conversation with KHN Editor-in-Chief Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal and James Hamblin, a former staff writer at The Atlantic. The journalists discuss how society grappled with the trauma of the covid-19 pandemic and the governmental missteps that compounded that trauma.
鈥淓veryone has experienced the suffering of the pandemic in his or her or their own way,鈥 said Rosenthal, 鈥渁nd so much of it feels unnecessary had we had a strong national response.鈥 In particular, Rosenthal cited the failure to track health care workers lost on the front line and toxic politics that undermined public health agencies throughout the country.
