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In the News highlights media coverage featuring the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

TheSkimm
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Living with COVID

If you’ve heard people say it’s time to start “living with COVID,” you’re not alone. TheSkimm asked two experts what that phrase actually means, and how we can assess our own risk going forward.
 

The Atlantic
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We’re Entering the Control Phase of the Pandemic

We’ve been at similar junctures before—at the end of the very first surge, again in the pre-Delta downslope. Each time, the virus has come roaring back. It is not done with us. Which means that we cannot be done with it.
Jennifer Nuzzo and Crystal Watson are quoted. 
 

Associated Press
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Estimated 73% of US now immune to omicron: Is that enough?

The omicron wave that assaulted the United States this winter also bolstered its defenses, leaving enough protection against the coronavirus that future spikes will likely require much less — if any — dramatic disruption to society.
Andy Pekosz and Shaun Truelove are quoted. 

Axios
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D.C. residents recalculate risk as mask and vaccine mandate ends

The end of D.C.’s mask and vaccine mandates means that some residents, particularly parents of children under the age of five, and those who are immunocompromised, are re-calculating risk as some D.C. council members criticize the move.
 

The Atlantic
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Why Covid-19 vaccines are a freaking miracle

What has been accomplished in the 25 months since Chinese scientists first shared the genetic sequence of the newly discovered SARS-CoV-2 virus has defied the predictions of the most optimistic prognosticators.