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Jan 2022
1h 15m

The Pandemic Lessons We Clearly Haven’t ...

NEW YORK TIMES OPINION
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I remember thinking, as Covid ravaged the country in December 2020, that at least the holidays the next year would be better. There would be more vaccines, more treatments, more immunity. Instead, we got Omicron and a confusing new phase of the pandemic. What do you do with a variant that is both monstrously more infectious and somewhat milder? What do you s ... Show More
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