This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson. After two

years of pandemic restrictions, many Americans are back in the office in

restaurants and other crowded spaces, often while leaving mass at home. But with

infections rising, doctors are warning that although we may be over the COVID

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no ventilation in that school district and they are bringing that virus back

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people being more likely to be infected. Bracing for a pandemic surge coming up

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Welcome to a word. A podcast about race, impolitics and everything else. I'm your

host Jason Johnson. Vigilance about COVID has been on the decline from months in

the U.S., millions of Americans are back to work in person, and mass have

become optional in policy and practice. Even in locations with little social

distance and a fair number of at-risk people, but President Biden's COVID

infection has served as a wake-up call. In the cities like Dallas, San Francisco

and New York, the new BA-5 variant is pushing infection rates up again, even as

many of the community efforts to fight the virus are disappearing. So it's a

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