ABSTRACT
“COVID Notes,” a diary Dr Goldfield has kept since the start of the pandemic, provides a direct sensibility of the challenges and, yes fragility, that confront us as we continue to deal with this pandemic and then pandemics to come. Dr Goldfield's “COVID Notes” forms the heart of the book. It proceeds in reverse order; that is the most recent entry is first. Starting in March 2020, Dr Goldfield has sent out a single-spaced page approximately every two weeks to about 1000 colleagues in the United States and overseas. It is extensively referenced. Each diary entry consists of observations on patients of his who have suffered or died because of the pandemic. He combines these observations together with extensive policy commentaries and summaries of the evolving pandemic science. It is a unique document that continues to “live through the pandemic.”
