Three Years Into Covid, We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About It
Most Americans think they know the story of the pandemic. But when a writer immersed himself in a Covid oral-history project, he realized how much we’re still missing.
By Jon Mooallem and
![New York City’s Chinatown in March 2020, early in the Covid pandemic lockdown.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2023/02/26/magazine/26mag-Covid-images-01/26mag-Covid-images-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp)