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Protecting yourself from COVID-19 these days is hard. And it comes at a cost.

by Samantha Fields

Mar 20, 2024

Governments and businesses need to invest in ways to prevent transmission, experts say, instead of leaving people on their own.

"We cannot rely on masking forever. We cannot ask people, even immunocompromised people, to mask for the next 100 years," says Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist. Above, people with long COVID symptoms sit in on a Senate hearing about the condition.

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