COVID-19 pandemic: Difference between revisions

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|A.A. Dowd, [[The Onion|The A.V. Club]], "[https://film.avclub.com/the-star-powered-covid-drama-locked-down-is-nearly-as-a-1846052007 The star-powered COVID drama ''Locked Down'' is nearly as annoying as, well, lockdown]"}}

The '''COVID-19 pandemic''' (December 2019 - )<ref>While the World Health Organization declared that the emergency was over in May 2023, they did not declare that the pandemic was over.</ref> is a worldwide pandemic brought about by the spread of the "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2" family of viruses. It brought society to a near standstill in the early months of 2020.

The '''COVID-19 pandemic''' (December 2019 - )<ref>While the World Health Organization declared that the global emergency was over in May 2023, they did not declare that the pandemic was over.</ref> is a worldwide pandemic brought about by the spread of the "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2" family of viruses. It brought society to a near standstill in the early months of 2020.

There is much to be said about the pandemic and its lingering effects on global society that cannot be done justice here, and [[The Other Wiki]] goes into far more detail about [[wikipedia:COVID-19 pandemic|this pandemic]] than we could ever hope to manage. That said, [[All The Tropes]] can hopefully paint an adequate enough picture of what's developed through this article's coverage of the aspects that fall within our purview: specifically, the pandemic, its role in pop culture and its effects on that and other aspects of culture and media - and the mirror that it all holds up to us.