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COVID continues to mutate, and a new strain is causing spikes in cases across the country. A conversation with the physician and New Yorker contributor Dhruv Khullar about how we should think about the virus now, and what people can do to protect themselves this fall. Plus:

Sloane Crosley on the celebrity-children’s-book boom

Where Pam Bondi came from

Charli XCX dominates in her acting début

For many patients, COVID vaccines will be harder to obtain this year. Photograph by Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times / Getty

Daniel A. Gross

A story editor at The New Yorker.

The attacks on mainstream vaccine science

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