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Thank you. From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Here we are.

Two plus years after confronting the first waves of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, the virus has evolved and so have the countermeasures that people in different parts of the world have been willing to take.

The data that we've used to triangulate where we are in the pandemic continues to get squishier,

and even among those who've been cautious, there's weariness.

So where does that all leave us? We're going to talk about the local, the national, and even among those who've been cautious, there's weariness. So where does that all leave us?

We're going to talk about the local, the national, and the global,

as we wait to see if there's another Bay Area wave just over the horizon

or some other plot twist.

That's all coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. So far, despite waves rising and falling in other parts of the world this spring, the Bay Area has not seen a return

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