Global perspectives on Covid-19 from the editorial board

‘May you live in interesting times’: although the provenance of this saying is unknown, it has been described as a curse.1 Globally, we are in a period of disruption and tremendous change during this Covid-19 pandemic. Believing the world is cursed is obviously not helpful and many people are instead rising to the challenges of keeping safe, working collaboratively, changing approaches to education and communication, and rethinking social and political processes. In this article the editorial board of The Clinical Teacher reflect on living in the time of Covid-19 from their personal perspectives, influenced by their local and national contexts and experiences.