Preventing future waves of COVID-19

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Human ingenuity and adaptiveness helped: COVID-19 has infected more than 24 million people and left more than 800,000 dead as of this writing, the early projections of mortality were much worse.

Pockets of resistance against wearing masks and complying with other measures notwithstanding, the global public-health response has saved millions of lives. 

Increasingly, countries are restarting more aspects of normal life while keeping case numbers tenuously in check.




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