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.