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The Mystery of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections
There is nothing surprising about cases like mine, but they do have a psychological impact.
By Masha Gessen
April 10, 2021
The first weekend of March was the best weekend in a year. My son; my girlfriend, Julia; and I drove north from New York City to a cabin in the woods. We would spend the weekend by a frozen lake, ice-skating, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing. It had been more than two weeks since my second vaccine shot. Julia had had her first shot the previous Monday. That weekend, movie theatres were opening in the city. Our over-all pandemic routines hadn?t changed much, but I was planning to take my first reporting trip in more than a year. We were at the finish line...
The Mystery of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections
There is nothing surprising about cases like mine, but they do have a psychological impact.
By Masha Gessen
April 10, 2021
The first weekend of March was the best weekend in a year. My son; my girlfriend, Julia; and I drove north from New York City to a cabin in the woods. We would spend the weekend by a frozen lake, ice-skating, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing. It had been more than two weeks since my second vaccine shot. Julia had had her first shot the previous Monday. That weekend, movie theatres were opening in the city. Our over-all pandemic routines hadn?t changed much, but I was planning to take my first reporting trip in more than a year. We were at the finish line...
