Processing grief, embracing hope

Almost a year into the pandemic, societies around the world are faced with immense contradictions: processing shocking death tolls while finding hope in promising vaccine rollouts. Surgeon, writer and researcher Atul Gawande speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about what it means to be human in this precarious moment.

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