Health
Covid Is Back. Here’s What You Need to Know
With colder weather in the US, Covid is coming.
With the recent rise in cases, the federal government brought back a program to provide free at-home Covid tests.
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While the Covid-19 public health emergency may feel like a distant memory, the virus isn’t done with us. Hospitalizations have climbed back up and experts predict Covid cases will rise further as the weather turns colder.
But it’s not totally clear how we should prepare. When the darkest days of the pandemic passed, so did the near-constant briefings about when to stay home, how to get tested and which variants and vaccines are circulating.