2021, issue 46, Gabriella Wulff: Before entering into a discussion of how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing social life across the world, I first want to make a clarification that I regard the question and the answer as twofold. First, the pandemic itself has changed our social life, in terms of an increased number of people in need of healthcare to a greater extent than a normal flu or cold, and we have also seen that the mortality rates are higher due to the spread of COVID-19.