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can stop wearing masks, has attempted to change the reality of our COVID risk landscape by assigning new colors to risk levels and massively shifting the parameters of these criteria. is still recording nearly 2,000 COVID-19 deaths per day. For context, over the entire year of 2020, about 385,000 COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
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exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, could set the stage for another public health emergency given eroding trust in institutions — especially in media, government, and public health officials. about their pandemic-perspectives, detailed in the report 5 Years Later: America Looks Back at the Impact of COVID-19.
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