Five years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, we seem to have a lot more contagious disease, not less. Some have called it the "Plague Years," or as journalist Ed Yong once described it, we might be living in the Pandemicene, “an era defined by viruses’ power over us.”
The various conquered or almost conquered diseases making a comeback in these late years of COVID include tuberculosis, polio, syphilis, even dysentery. Also back is the world’s most infectious disease: measles.
