Whether you’re joining the marches or living in a place that lifted its stay-at-home orders weeks ago, it’s still important to take precautions
, exhausted by months of social isolation and suffering from what public-health experts have labeled ”quarantine fatigue.”
Julia Marcus, an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor at Harvard Medical School, explained that abstinence-only messaging just isn’t sustainable for long-term prevention — a lesson she said she learned“The focus has been to stay home, which made a lot of sense because we really needed people to shut down most social activities so that we could flatten the curve and buy us all time to build health-care capacity, testing, and contact tracing,” Marcus toldBut as we’ve learned more about...
While protesting in large groups does come with a greater risk, public-health experts have countered that structural racism and police violence is a health risk in and of itself. They’ve offeredMarcus and Boston University epidemiologist Ellie Murray created anthat illustrates activities on a spectrum from lower to highest risk.
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