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This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

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“Health-related absences from work continued to track COVID-19 circulation and were 12.9 per cent higher in the post-pandemic period compared with before the pandemic (140,000 monthly absences).” Absences were highest in occupations with the greatest exposure to the public.