Our Covid-19 World Is Beset With Challenges

Deepti Pradhan
13 min readMay 25, 2020

Epidemiologists, virologists, and immunologists had tried to warn us of the challenges of a global viral outbreak, but decision-makers ignored them and now we’re paying the price — we can still change that. We’ve worked very hard these past few months, so getting sloppy and cavalier now would be a ghastly waste.

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Deepti Pradhan

Employed at Yale University, Deepti is primarily a scientist & patient advocate. She runs Tilde Cafe, a forum to make science accessible (www.tildecafe.org)