27/11/2022
The Covid-19 pandemic hit the world with almost zero notice and spread so fast that even the most advanced economies are still struggling to deal with it. The pandemic upended all parts of society (Zhang and Varma, 2020), but especially hit the health care sector the hardest, as governments and health-care professionals did not know enough about it to protect the populace (Pereira et al., 2021). Indeed, as Tovstiga and Tovstiga (2020) noted “the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has produced a perfect knowledge storm [...] The pandemic has painfully exposed how ‘we do not know what we do not know’.”