SARANAC LAKE — Bill Reiley, a researcher at Saranac Lake’s Trudeau Institute, started working on treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 before the coronavirus began to spread throughout the nation.
In 2020, Covid-19 saw Offa's Dyke reawaken from centuries of slumber, with lockdowns in England and Wales meaning the border was effectively shut for the first time in centuries.
For many South Africans, the quiet and calmness that can be found in the water – one of the rare places with few, if any, human-related threats – has been transformational.
Around 150 years ago, the upstate New York village of Saranac Lake became home to people looking for a cure to a highly contagious disease. Today, its healing legacy lives on.