, Columnist
Covid Is on Its Way to Becoming Just Another Virus
It's time to remind ourselves that, for those who’ve been inoculated, the coronavirus is no longer the imminent threat it was 18 months ago.
Live with it.
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In the days before Covid, I’d often get frustrated by the response that doctors would give when I turned up at their clinics with some infection or other: “It’s just a virus,” they’d say.
As someone who’s long been fascinated by the detective work that goes into tracing the origins and history of infections,1the answer always seemed too perfunctory. Which virus was it? Where and when did this strain emerge? How many other people were getting infected with this same variant this year?