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Commentary: The current state of COVID-19 should invite hope — not complacency

A COVID-19 testing sign stands on a Brooklyn street corner on April 18, 2022 in New York City.

The famous Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken” begins: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both.” The United States and the rest of the world faced a fork in the road with two possible options at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic: Attempt to control the spread of the virus through social measures and lockdowns or let the virus run its course naturally (“let it rip,” as some have referred to it) in the

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