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Hantavirus is nothing like coronavirus, but it’s bringing some ‘COVID PTSD’

The Seattle Times·NEIL VIGDOR The New York Times·24 days ago
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Medical workers in protective suits. Contact tracing. PCR tests and World Health Organization briefings. Just when much of the public had presumed to have left those ominous images and turns of phrase intertwined with the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, a deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard a Dutch cruise ship has dredged up familiar anxieties. Health experts, aware of the scars COVID left on people, including those who are still dealing with it, have sought to dispel comparisons between hantavirus and coronavirus. They said this week that the viruses spread quite differently and were not close in magnitude.…

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