Part One: Tom The time is May 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down much of public life across the world. The death toll in the United States alone is set to surpass 100,000. However, there is a bright spot in all of this: there is promising news out of Germany and the United Kingdom

People who died of COVID-19 are buried near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Credit: Fabio Teixeira/Anadolu Agency via Getty The number of people who have died because of the COVID-19 pandemic could be roughly three times higher than official figures suggest, according to a new analysis1.The study, published on 10 March in The Lancet, says that the…