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							<title><![CDATA[How Covid Is Resurfacing After Months of Calm]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/opinions/covid-19-resurfaces-sepkowitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kent Sepkowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the past month, rates of hospitalization related to Covid-19 slowly have risen throughout the United States. Not unexpectedly, more severe cases and the overall proportion of all emergency room visits ascribed to Covid-19 are being seen in less-vaccinated areas. Most ominously, weekly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I'll Happily Keep Wearing a Mask on Airplanes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/opinions/covid-mask-mandate-air-travel-cdc-sepkowitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kent Sepkowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once again, the shifting winds of the Covid-19 pandemic have placed the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a pickle. Last month, in the (very brief) good old days after the original Omicron variant had settled, the agency had indicated that, on April 18, it would reevaluate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Humble Prediction for What Comes Next With Covid]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/opinions/the-future-of-covid-19-omicron-sepkowitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kent Sepkowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Kent Sepkowitz writes about what may lie ahead for a fatigued world that's battling the current Omicron wave. This latest variant, he says, should serve as a humbling lesson for infectious disease experts.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Covid May Be Peaking, But We're in a 21st Century Cold War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/13/opinions/delta-variant-covid-cold-war-sepkowitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kent Sepkowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kent Sepkowitz writes that, after two months of dramatically rising Covid-19 cases, the rolling 7-day average of new daily cases in the US has decreased. But if we have learned anything it is that the Covid-19 pandemic isn't going to miraculously disappear. So what do we make of this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Blunt Truth About What Comes Next With Covid-19]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/14/opinions/blunt-truth-what-comes-next-covid-sepkowitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kent Sepkowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only real certainty we have is this: the world's herd will eventually become immune to the Delta variant one way (via vaccine) or another (through infection, disease and possible death), writes Dr. Kent Sepkowitz. Humans can decide between the options but the virus has declared its...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Really Worrisome Thing About the Covid Delta Variant]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/02/opinions/worrisome-thing-about-delta-variant-sepkowitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kent Sepkowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kent Sepkowitz writes that, while the headlines about the Delta variant have largely focused on the rising infection rates, the fact that some children have gotten seriously ill from the virus is a problem worthy of real debate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mystery of Michigan's Covid Surge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/14/opinions/michigan-covid-surge-and-vaccines-sepkowitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kent Sepkowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kent Sepkowitz writes that in Michigan, daily Covid cases are nearing their highest highs. There are a lot of factors including transmission among young, unvaccinated people and a premature return to normal life that could be fueling this spike.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Danger of a Giant Covid Belly Flop]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/08/opinions/covid-19-herd-immunity-vaccine-sepkowitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kent Sepkowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kent Sepkowitz writes about the US's goal of achieving herd immunity -- the concept that once a critical mass of people are immunized against Covid-19, the whole population will be protected.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gov. DeSantis' Florida Boast Rings Hollow]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/opinions/ron-desantis-gavin-newsom-covid-sepkowitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Kent Sepkowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With Covid-19, we will not be measuring success by employment rates and cherry-picked data, but rather the staggering number of persons who died, writes Kent Sepkowitz. Judging Covid-19 management on anything other than those lost lives is not only disgraceful, it will also almost...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Covid Vaccine Campaign Is Not a Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/01/opinions/covid-19-vaccine-rollout-us-sepkowitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Kent Sepkowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As just over 2 million Americans have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, Kent Sepkowitz explains why the rollout, rather than a disaster, has been mediocre. But it is still an achievement, he says.]]></description>
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