Majid Umair, Bakshi Simran, Truong Judy, Wasim Aghna
An instructor at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, and a global health systems consultant. He can be reached by e-mail at
A BSc graduate from the University of Western Ontario, London, ON. She can be found on Twitter at @simranbakshi.
Healthc Q. 2020 Jul;23(2):21-23. doi: 10.12927/hcq.2020.26279.
A new decade often begins with new life, new relationships and new purposes. Unfortunately, the start of this decade has been anything but, thanks to the rather unprecedented global crisis that has rapidly taken over our lives. COVID-19 - which seemed to be just a flu-like infection spreading modestly in mainland China - has suddenly became a pandemic that has crashed economies and broken health systems worldwide.
新的十年往往始于新的生活、新的人际关系和新的目标。不幸的是，由于这场迅速席卷我们生活的前所未有的全球危机，这十年的开端并非如此。新冠病毒——它起初似乎只是一种在中国内地适度传播的类似流感的感染——突然演变成一场大流行病，使全球经济崩溃，医疗体系瓦解。
