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What Should Our COVID-19 Strategy Look Like in 2022?

INTERVIEW BY STEPHANIE DESMON The U.S. strategy for fighting COVID-19 has focused on preventing infection. The wildly contagious omicron variant has challenged this approach. What’s needed now, says Emily Gurley, PhD ’12, MPH, a professor of the practice in Epidemiology, is a shift to preventing hospitalization and death. In this Q&A, adapted […]

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SHOULD SCHOOLS BE OPEN DURING THE OMICRON SURGE?

Communities around the United States held their breath in fall 2021 when most children and teachers returned to school in person. The start of the school year was relatively uneventful thanks to vaccines, masks, physical distancing in classrooms, and, in some cases, improved ventilation in school buildings. But by the […]

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