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Dec 15, 2021 · Rohde believes that we could get closer to 'the new normal' by 2023: "I believe things will continue as they are happening now throughout 2022 with ups and downs [surges]. Hopefully, as we enter late spring and summer of 2023, we may see things get closer to normal." Rohde argues that historically pandemics last somewhere between 1.5-3.5 years.
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Dec 19, 2023 · Frederick J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images. In spring 2023, COVID hospitalizations and deaths hit their lowest levels since the start of the pandemic. Masks came off and schools and some workplaces ...
- Pien Huang
Aug 2, 2023 · “I think a lot of us are cautiously optimistic that we may start getting a new normal respiratory season.” Even if the peaks of each viral wave are further apart than they were last year, the ...
- Apoorva Mandavilli
Dec 2, 2021 · The remaining three-quarters thought that life would be back to normal within a year of March 2020. No one back then thought that life might never return to normal. The majority thought normality ...
- Pien Huang
- As 'normal life' returned, some felt left behind. For many, school and work and social lives and travel resumed freely. For some – living with compromised immune systems or long COVID or grief – the world seemed to surge ahead without considering them.
- Scientists tackle the mysteries of long COVID. For the millions of people in the U.S. living with long COVID symptoms such as brain fog, poor sleep and pain, better understanding of the disease and treatments can't come soon enough.
- A new COVID vaccine strategy could help — if only people would pay attention. Updated COVID vaccines came to U.S. consumers this fall, promising better protection against recent variants.
- A big shift in collecting COVID data — from case counts to monitoring poop. Earlier this year, the CDC stopped collecting data on new infections (as in positive tests) – relying instead on COVID hospitalizations, deaths and, increasingly, on wastewater surveillance – a network set up during the pandemic to regularly test sewage samples from around the country.
Dec 19, 2023 · Experts say the new COVID boosters are a much closer match to currently circulating variants than prior vaccines and boosters. In spring 2023, COVID hospitalizations and deaths hit their lowest levels since the start of the pandemic. Masks came off and schools and some workplaces were back in person. The nation emerged from the three-year COVID ...
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Dec 19, 2023 · Here are stories on the COVID beat from NPR's health reporters that show some of the lessons learned – and not learned — as the pandemic evolved in 2023. Support for LAist comes from Become a ...
