Thus far, to the best of my knowledge, I have dodged infection with the coronavirus. I am up-to-date on the recommended vaccinations and have comported myself with caution. However, I am not in a state of personal lockdown and I still enter area retail establishments to make personal purchases, although I am always masked. Currently, I am sipping a sugar-free peppermint mocha in a very sparsely populated coffee shop. I accept that public health experts might challenge my definition of cautious. Indeed, I’m sure many of them wouldn’t step foot, let alone a toe, into a supermarket these days. But the risks of catching the corona on my personal forays in the community pale next to the risks I face each week at work when I am in direct contact with several dozens of patients and staff. The omicron variant spiked into the stratosphere here in Northeast Ohio, but thankfully it appears to be in a steady descent now. It does not seem that the vaccines and boosters protect us against o
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