EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep across the globe, infecting, at last count, over 2.6 million persons, and killing over a quarter million. The disease, a vaccine or a cure for which still eludes us, has frequently seen war analogies being invoked, mainly for the high body count it is inflicting. In the United States, the country most affected by the pandemic, fatalities recently surpassed those recorded during the 19-year-long Vietnam War.

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