Have we become so jaded by the Covid pandemic that we've lost our will to fight preventable diseases? “Instead of presenting a unified front against Covid-19, we fought bitterly, and three years on, our shared response seems to be a shellshocked unwillingness to even think about epidemic diseases,” says Richard Conniff, author of “Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion.” “I believe that the way to ease us as a nation back into the essential business of preventing infectious diseases is by focusing on pathogens we already know perfectly well and for which we have new tools to reduce or eliminate sickness worldwide. I’m thinking in particular of the very winnable fights against three diseases with a long history of maiming, crippling and killing humans: tuberculosis, malaria and polio.” #infectiousdisease #vaccines #nytopinion