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Stop Worrying About Extremely Unlikely Covid Risks
After nearly a year, we’ve learned some things about how the virus spreads — and how it doesn’t.
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The USDA has now announced that there’s “no credible evidence” that people can get Covid-19 from touching packages in the grocery store. At first blush, this sounds like a breakthrough — but there was no evidence of this in the spring of 2020, either.
Throughout the pandemic, there’s been a tendency to play up unlikely risks and not talk enough about uncertainty and probabilities.