Climate Change Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Santosh Pandipati, MD

Turbulent times lie ahead (photons reflecting off the author’s father and son, captured by the author off the coast of Southern California, 2017 — the author reserves all rights to this photograph)

At the time of this writing the SARS-CoV-2 virus has killed more than 100,000 Americans — a catastrophic and tragic loss of human life having occurred within just a few months’ time. Many who have had severe infections and subsequently recovered do not make it into this count, but are dealing with residual and significant loss of lung, kidney, liver, and…