We are probably finally getting at the tipping point between a pendemic disease, which this has been for the last two years, into an endemic disease. Even if new variants emerged, this layer of immunity we have will hold up against severe disease. And then boosters given to the most honorable people will soften the blow of new variants further.
The lightning-fast spread of a seemingly milder coronavirus variant may represent a shift from pandemic to endemic; we ask how that would change global responses. Concern about video-game addictiveness is as old as video games themselves—but the business models of modern gaming may be magnifying the problem. And newly publicised photographs shed light on Bangladesh’s brutal war for independence.
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