Ready or not, it s over. The country s public health emergency touched off in January 2020 by the sudden appearance of a novel coronavirus formally enters the history books when the
COVID is still killing about 500 Americans every day picking off the oldest, frailest members of our society. When visiting elderly friends or relatives, N95 masking, rapid tests and caution should still be the order of the day.
Among the more remarkable legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic is how quickly federal regulators, the health care industry and consumers moved to make at-home testing a reliable tool for managing a public health crisis. But that fast-track focus is missing from another, less publicized epidemic: an explosion in sexually transmitted diseases that can cause chronic pain and infertility among .