In the Season of SARS
The first pandemic. Covid was the second. There are increasing fears there will be more
By Todd Crowell
In early 2003, when I was working in Hong Kong, I got an email from a friend and former colleague regretting he had to cancel a planned trip to the city.
“It’s that pneumonia thing.”
Pneumonia thing? What pneumonia thing, I wondered. What was he talking about?
I was vaguely aware that some hospital in Kowloon had reported a few cases of what…