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Hold on to the hard lessons of the pandemic

Hold on to the hard lessons of the pandemic

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Virginia Heffernan
Jul 13, 2021
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Discarded mask on ground among flowers
(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

It’s getting harder and harder to remember the height of the pandemic, when some 4,000 Americans were dying every day.

As recently as January, a person died of COVID-19 every eight minutes in Los Angeles County. Embalmers were overwhelmed. California ran out of storage space for the dead, so the South Coast Air Quality…

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