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Should Everyone Be Masking Again?

December 23, 2022 · Health

Winter is here, and so, once more, are mask mandates. After last winter’s crushing Omicron spike, much of America did away with masking requirements. But with cases once…

What Happened to Hand-Washing?

October 24, 2022 · Health

Way back in the early, whirlwind days of the pandemic, surfaces were the thing to worry about. The prevailing scientific wisdom was that the coronavirus spread mainly via…

The Strongest Signal That Americans Should Worry About Flu This Winter

September 7, 2022 · Health

Sometime in the spring of 2020, after centuries, perhaps millennia, of tumultuous coexistence with humans, influenza abruptly went dark. Around the globe, documented cases of the viral infection…