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Sean Gallup / Getty The Odds of Getting COVID From Your Housemate Are ‘About a Coin Flip’
If the virus is in your house, you can still escape it.
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Cyril Zannettacci / Redux America Is Running Out of ‘COVID Virgins’
If you haven’t gotten the coronavirus, are you a sitting duck?
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Jens Kalaene / picture alliance / Getty How Are We Possibly Still Disinfecting Things?
America can’t quit hygiene theater.
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The Atlantic; Getty Why This COVID Wave Feels Different
In the winter, cases shot up and plummeted with unprecedented speed. But something else is going on with this surge.
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Getty; The Atlantic Are We in the Middle of an Invisible COVID Wave?
No one’s actually sure.
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Tim Gruber / The New York Times / … Is It Time to Start Masking Again?
Well, that depends.
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Allison Hess / Bloomberg / Getty Post-Omicron Life Can Be Downright Maddening
How to live with the uncertainty of not knowing what comes next
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Getty; The Atlantic What You Can Actually Do After an Omicron Infection
And what you still can’t
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The Atlantic Don’t Be Surprised When You Get Omicron
America is in for a lot more breakthrough infections. Here’s what to do if you fall sick.
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Noam Galai / Getty How Easily Can Vaccinated People Spread COVID?
Vaccination is the best protection against infection. But when breakthroughs do occur, a very basic question still has an unsatisfying answer.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Booster-Shot Debate Was a Debacle
An autopsy of the long, fractious, and bewildering public argument over COVID boosters
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Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Why Are Americans Still—Still!—Wearing Cloth Masks?
It’s long past time for an upgrade.
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Mario Tama / Getty Stop Calling It a ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’
Sure, it may be true. But that doesn’t mean it’s productive.
