When I finished the manuscript for my book The Pause, which looked at the COVID-19 pandemic through the idea of “pausing,” a notion frequently invoked in pandemic discussions of suspended and cancelled activities, I was happy to be done and not to think about the pandemic anymore.
My first instinct was to get rid of all the books I had bought on COVID-19, knowing that after living through the crisis I would never want to read them again. Yet when my book was released this past May, it was obvious that the effects of the pandemic were still very present.
These effects range from lingering health issues with long COVID, to supply chain shortages, to grief for those who died and for all the experiences missed. In their article “The Youngest Pandemic Children Are Now in School, and Struggling,” journalists Claire Cain Miller and Sarah Mervosh outline the difficulties faced by children born during the COVID-19 crisis.
