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Harvard Researchers Say Some Social Distancing May Be Needed Into 2022
- Much is still unknown about the virus and humanity’s response
- Infections could return after measures lifted, researchers say
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People around the world might need to practice some level of social distancing intermittently through 2022 to stop Covid-19 from surging anew and overwhelming hospital systems, a group of Harvard disease researchers said Tuesday.
Lifting social-distancing measures all at once could risk simply delaying the epidemic’s peak and potentially making it more severe, the scientists warned in an article published Tuesday in the journal Science.
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Harvard Researchers Say Some Social Distancing May Be Needed Into 2022