It is not that Abigail Rogado had not traveled at all since March 2020, but when the founder and chief executive officer of branding consultancy ArtTank had hit the road, she had done it with trepidation.
“I lost my dad to COVID in the pandemic’s early days,” she said. “It made me more heightened about my precautions. I was really living the hermit life. I didn’t even go outside to take walks for months.”
Even after COVID-19 cases had declined substantially in autumn last year, Rogado still wore a mask outdoors in New York City, her hometown.
Then the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2