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A lot has changed since last year’s pre-Delta lull, but America can still reclaim some coronavirus-free chill—if it decides to commit.

The Department of Justice said Monday that it had submitted to the Federal Register a final rule designed to curb the proliferation of so-called "ghost guns" — untraceable firearms that don't have serial numbers.
 

Months of confusing messaging, piled onto existing inequities, kneecapped America’s booster campaign before it had really started.
 

Safe Streets, modeled after the Cure Violence program in Chicago, employs community members — people with knowledge of the streets and often criminal histories — as “violence interrupters.” They’re tasked with mediating conflicts before they turn deadly.
 

One of the biggest logistical headaches for international travelers — the requirement to test negative for the coronavirus within a day of flying into the United States — appears to be sticking around.
 

Some studies suggest that Omicron infections last up to about 10 days in the body, which is comparable to the duration of its predecessor, the Delta variant, and slightly shorter than the two week timeframe of the original strain of COVID-19.

The immunity from vaccinations and previous infections may make this wave, if there is one, less lethal for people who have some immunity but still dangerous for people who are vulnerable.
 

Experts agree that daily U.S. Covid cases are dramatically undercounted. Some have begun to question the stat’s importance in this phase of the pandemic.
David Dowdy and Keri Althoff are quoted. 

New COVID-19 cases, as well as deaths and hospitalizations, continue to decline in the United States. Experts say this trend could stifle a resurgence of COVID-19 cases this summer.

In the latest Senate package targeted at stopping the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers dropped nearly all funding for curbing the virus beyond American borders, a move many health experts slammed as dangerously short-sighted.

The Omicron subvariant caused as many as 3 in 4 cases of Covid-19 in the United States last week, according to the latest genomic surveillance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but so far, there are no signs of a looming surge in the US.
 

More than a dozen guests who attended Saturday night’s Gridiron Club dinner — including two Cabinet members, two members of Congress and a top aide to Vice President Harris — have since tested positive for coronavirus, sending ripples of anxiety through a city on the cusp of restarting its traditional social whirl after a two-year pause.