Coming soon to gasworld, a brand-new series of articles exploring the Covid-19 oxygen crisis and asking, how did we get here?
As revellers around the world celebrated into the small hours of 1st January 2020, it’s fair to say almost no-one knew what kind of new year they were ushering in. Just over 100 years since the ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic raged across the globe and took the lives of tens of millions of people, a new virus was about to be unleashed on the world to strikingly similar and devastating effect.
Covid-19 (coronavirus) has left a painful, indelible mark on society the world over and continues to have a grip on our way of living, working and interacting even today. Sadly, it also continues to ravage a number of countries in the southern hemisphere that lack both the vaccination programmes and the one key treatment required to deal with it – oxygen.
Our response to this once-in-a-century global pandemic that so unexpectedly and irrevocably change the world poses a number of questions.
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