![]() ![]() What we’ve learned: Not everyone practiced preventive measures such as mask wearing, maintaining a 6-foot distance, and washing hands frequently. This included the widespread wearing of masks indoors and outside. But when the pandemic began, it necessitated a global effort to ensure that everyone practiced behaviors to keep themselves healthy and safe-and keep others healthy as well. What happened: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently relaxed its masking guidance for those who have been fully vaccinated. We asked our Yale Medicine experts to weigh in on what they think are lessons worth remembering, including those that might help us survive a future virus or nurture a resilience that could help with life in general. ![]() “So, I would say one major lesson from a public health or infectious disease perspective is that it’s important to remember and recognize our history. The bubonic plague, for example, ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages-resurfacing again and again-but once it was under control, people started to forget about it, she says. “Humanity's memory is short, and what is not ever-present fades quickly,” says Manisha Juthani, MD, a Yale Medicine infectious diseases specialist. At that point, what will we glean from the past year? Are there silver linings or lessons learned? ![]() But this coming year, if the vaccines drive down infections and variants are kept at bay, life could return to some form of normal. The COVID-19 pandemic changed life as we know it-and it may have changed us individually as well, from our morning routines to our life goals and priorities. ![]()
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