Will Stone – NPR – June 30, 2022
James Hay, who studies infectious disease dynamics, remembers earlier this year when his sister continued testing positive for two weeks. Their family had plans to get together over the holiday — a gathering that included an older relative who was vulnerable to COVID.
“To us, that was just not worth the risk,” says Hay, who’s a research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Going to the shops with a mask on, that’s a different kind of risk consideration.”