As the world approaches 1 million deaths from COVID-19, we must confront the fact
that we are taking a far too narrow approach to managing this outbreak of a new coronavirus.
We have viewed the cause of this crisis as an infectious disease. All of our interventions
have focused on cutting lines of viral transmission, thereby controlling the spread
of the pathogen. The “science” that has guided governments has been driven mostly
by epidemic modellers and infectious disease specialists, who understandably frame
the present health emergency in centuries-old terms of plague.

Source: www.thelancet.com