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The Three COVID Developments I’m Still Holding Out Hope For

We don’t have to be in this COVID rut forever.
Source: John J Custer / The Atlantic

We are in a COVID rut. Early on in the pandemic, we could look forward to the arrival of vaccines. But the vaccines came, and though they did wonders in bringing down the daily death toll, COVID is ever present in our lives.

When we step back and assess the news in totality, we might feel that we are stuck, that things aren’t going to get better, and that, no matter what progress we make, the virus will outsmart us sooner or later.

With a virus that has evolved to morph and recirculate with the frequency of the common cold and far greater deadliness, many people are wondering

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