Dating during the pandemic is becoming less complicated and risky for attorney Shelley O’Connor.
Luis Parocua Jr. is no longer awakened by COVID-19 nightmares, triggered by the devastation he saw at his former hospital job.
Gone is the “looming anxiety” that Alice Liston says she felt commuting to her home healthcare job by public transportation.
These three Californians — along with more than 5.5 million others in the state who have received at least one vaccine dose — are entering the pandemic’s post-inoculation world, where some among the vaccinated are making plans to travel by air, eat inside restaurants, hug family members and enjoy a sex life with other vaccinated people.