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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Emma Brockes

Digested week: memories of Covid resurface with hantavirus and Ebola news

The Naked Cowboy plays guitar in an empty Times Square plaza
The Naked Cowboy stands alone in Times Square, New York, as Broadway theatres extended their closure due to Covid, May 2020. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Monday

Much discussion in my household this week about the possibility of hantavirus or Ebola becoming Covid-like in their spread. As darkening news from central Africa throws the withdrawal of US international aid into terrible relief, so we revisit memories of those early months of 2020 when reports of a strange virus in China slowly crept from final item on the news list to blaring emergency.

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