The Turning of the Tide
Our interactions with the disease matter as much as the disease itself
Medical and health professionals have long known that many — if not most — deaths in an epidemic or pandemic are not a direct result of a disease but of a mix of factors, some of them entirely avoidable. Whether it is HIV/AIDS, Ebola or the newest in the parade of horribles, Covid-19, how we perceive and interact with the disease may make as much…