Have Latter-day Saints Let a Crisis Go To Waste?

I have watched the COVID-19 pandemic as a biomedical researcher with a half-century career in respiratory virus diseases, and as a religionist with dual credentials: a lifelong Latter-day Saint and a member of the Board of Governors of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.

By the time we achieve "herd immunity" to COVID-19, regular worship services will have been suspended or drastically curtailed for over a year. While many will long to return to the religious life they had before the pandemic, others will have shifted gears and become accustomed to meeting-free Sundays.