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The Covid-19 Pandemic

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world.

Highlights

    2. When the Pandemic Hit Home

      New York Times readers share the moment they realized Covid would change the world.

       By Catherine Pearson

      CreditClockwise from top left: Farah Alvin, Asia Edwards, Johnna Wallace and Tim Prendergast

  1. Four Years On, Covid Has Reshaped Life for Many Americans

    Covid was declared a national emergency on March 13, 2020. Even as the threat of severe illness and death has faded, the pandemic’s effects linger.

     By Julie Bosman

    Paris Dolfman with her mother Alicia Martinez at their home. Ms. Dolfman had a mild Covid infection in 2022 that turned into an excruciating case of long Covid that has upended her life.
    CreditNicole Craine for The New York Times

  2. Audience Snapshot: Four Years After Shutdown, a Mixed Recovery

    Covid brought live performance to a halt. Now the audience for pop concerts and sporting events has roared back, while attendance on Broadway and at some major museums is still down.

     

    Broadway audiences have not yet rebounded to their prepandemic levels.
    CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times

  3. Four Years On, the Mysteries of Covid Are Unraveling

    Are superdodgers real? Is Covid seasonal? And what’s behind its strangest symptoms? Here’s what we’ve learned.

     By Knvul Sheikh

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  4. Long Covid May Lead to Measurable Cognitive Decline, Study Finds

    People with long Covid symptoms scored slightly lower on a cognitive test than people who had recovered. But long Covid patients who eventually got better scored as well as those whose symptoms did not last long.

     By Pam Belluck

    A long Covid patient with cognitive challenges prepared for a neurofeedback therapy session in Massachusetts in June.
    CreditBrian Snyder/Reuters

Vaccine

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  3. Riders, one wearing a mask, waited for a train at the Union Square station in New York City, as the federal public health emergency expired on Thursday.
    CreditEmon Hassan for The New York Times
  4. In the early days of the pandemic, when there were no effective treatments for Covid and a new vaccine seemed a distant fantasy, health care workers were enrolled in a trial and inoculated with an old TB vaccine.
    CreditChaideer Mahyuddin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  5. The C.D.C. said only about 43 percent of adults 65 and older had received their first booster shot.
    CreditKenny Holston for The New York Times

Maps and Trackers

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Travel

  1. Roamingwood Lake is one of several lakes in the Hideout, a gated community in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, where the full-timers and short-term rental owners are locked in a battle over the right to rent.
    CreditNoah Kalina for The New York Times
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  3. Airlines lower their fares when they are trying to get more people to book tickets as demand is slowing or they are facing stiffer competition.
    CreditStefani Reynolds for The New York Times
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  5. Early in the pandemic, cruise lines suspended operations, and shares in publicly traded cruise companies plummeted.
    CreditAngel Valentin for The New York Times
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