Five ways “Covid changed everything around us”: “We’re living in the branch of history it created”
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 11 March 2025
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Five years ago today, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. More than seven million people are confirmed to have died from the virus, though some estimates suggest the pandemic has actually caused between nineteen and thirty-six million deaths worldwide. But these numbers, as horrific as they are, don’t begin to tell the whole story.
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| 0:51.1 | Good day and welcome to the Tuesday, March the 11th, 2025 edition of Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm Chris Elkins' narrator. |
| 1:02.5 | Today's daily article is written by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:10.1 | Five years ago today, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. |
| 1:17.6 | Just reading that sentence brings back horrible memories for me, and I'm sure it does for you. |
| 1:22.6 | Images of portable morgues, patients dying alone in isolation wards, people masking out of fear of everyone they meet. |
| 1:32.2 | It seemed nearly everything was shut down from restaurants and businesses to schools and churches. |
| 1:38.5 | No one knew when a vaccine would arrive, assuming one could be developed. |
| 1:43.7 | More than 7 million people are confirmed to |
| 1:47.1 | have died from the virus, though some estimates suggest the pandemic has actually caused between 19 and |
| 1:54.1 | 36 million deaths worldwide. But these numbers, as horrific as they are, don't begin to tell the whole story. |
| 2:02.6 | According to New York Times columnist David Wallace Wells, we're living in the, quote, |
| 2:08.0 | branch of history, the pandemic created, one whose contours are only now coming into view. |
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