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But she can also reflect on her ordeal now and laugh at, say, a monologue that Mulaney performed about her fumbling with a post-treatment phenomenon called “cancer brain” in a recent broadcast of his Netflix late-night series, “Everybody’s Live.”

In 2023, I contributed to a German-language book where writers were asked to reflect on a feature in the Mann House that spoke to modern-day L.A.

While I’ve given in to social Covid fatigue at the classroom level, I have now decided — more than five years after the SARS-CoV-2 virus reached U.S. shores — that we need to muster the energy to reflect on the pandemic and extract a few lasting messages to help us rethink many aspects of science, and the world.

“But I think as that wound heals, there’s a lot to still reflect on.”

I step outside to give the family some space, and reflect on what we have just seen and filmed.