How to Stay Healthy This Cold-and-Flu Season
Hand-washing versus masking, staying home versus going into work, and the policy solutions we’re not (yet) pursuing
by Kelli María Korducki
Oct 27, 2022
4 minutes
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Cold-and-flu season is upon us, and COVID-19 is still here too. I called our staff writer Jacob Stern, who has published recent updates on the science of masking and hand-washing, and asked him to break down a few common misunderstandings about the spread of respiratory viruses and how to protect others when we get sick.
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Jacob, everyone seems to have a cold right now—including
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