I opened the calendar on my phone and confirmed that there were 38 days until my son’s bar mitzvah. If only I could have one day, I thought — a day in a normal body. My son’s bar mitzvah is a symbolic ...

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Nearly five years into the pandemic, COVID is feeling less central to our daily lives. But the virus, SARS-CoV-2, is still ...