HealthScience initially struggled to match the pace of the pandemic, leaving people unclear of the best ways to stay safe from the virus, but now we know so much more which could be essential when the next pandemic hits 1 January 2025 Looking back on the covid-19 pandemicNot touching your face. Panic-buying toilet roll. Disinfecting groceries. Some of the advice and behaviour of the early days of the covid-19 pandemic can, in retrospect, seem utterly bizarre. But when an unknown virus swept rapidly around the world, we were engulfed by questions how does it spread, who is most at risk, how can I avoid catching it and just how bad is this going to get that the instruments of medical science couldnt immediately answer.None of us could comprehend the scale and broad societal impact of this, the speed at which it developed, says