We’re already forgetting what 2020 was like
Eric Klinenberg.Photos by Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer Nation & World We’re already forgetting what 2020 was like 5 years later, sociologist urges us to confront lessons from pandemic Anna Lamb Harvard Staff Writer February 28, 2025 4 min read In 2020, signs and social media posts praising essential workers were ubiquitous. Now, you hardly ever hear talk about the people who put themselves at risk to keep the country going during the pandemic. In his book “2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed,” sociologist Eric Klinenberg reminds readers not to be so quick to forget how the pandemic changed us and the impacts we’re still dealing with today. Klinenberg brought this conversation to Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center, where he was joined in a panel discussion by Rochelle Walensky, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Professor I. Glenn Cohen, the faculty director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology...