The Accidental Plague Diaries: A COVID-19 Pandemic Experience

Everyone has a COVID pandemic story to tell. Dr. Andrew Duxbury has many: stories of a veteran geriatric physician caring for the most fragile patients in a university health system and in rural homes in the Deep South; stories of his concern for family friends fellow practitioners and the state of our healthcare system nationwide; stories of his own isolation of the loss of simple pleasures and passionate pastimes; stories of policies and politics that contributed to tens of thousands of needless deaths as well-known preventative measures were actively discouraged by state and local governments and exacerbated by cultural divides. This is a rare account of a rare time in American history a contemporaneous record from the end of normal and the anxiety and despair felt by all to the beginning of fragile hope for a better future.