August 6, 2021
Yes, the pandemic is bad again
The Atlantic, Aug. 6, 2021
Yes, the pandemic is bad again
Before Delta, Andrew Noymer, a public-health [associate] professor at UC Irvine, wasn’t expecting a significant resurgence of the virus—or a need to re-mask—until the fall. Earlier this summer, “I was out there saying that it’s okay to take off your mask,” Noymer told me. “And here we are seven weeks later—there’s Delta, and guess who’s masking at the grocery store again, even though he’s fully vaccinated? This guy. I feel the same whiplash.”