After three years of thinking about it ‘almost constantly,’ health and medicine editor contracts COVID-19

After three years of thinking about it 'almost constantly,' health and medicine editor contracts COVID-19

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Here’s a pretty lengthy thread from Tanya Lewis (she/her), senior health and medicine editor at Scientific American and also host of a podcast about COVID-19. She reveals that after three years of covering (and almost constantly thinking about) COVID-19, she’s contracted the coronavirus. That sucks, but here is how she managed to go three years without catching it:

Well, it happened. After nearly three years of covering COVID and thinking about it almost constantly, it finally got me. But rather than focus on how I got it, I’m going to tell you how I *didn’t* get it for this long. [Thread]

— Tanya Lewis (@tanyalewis314) December 16, 2022

From the moment we had evidence that COVID might be airborne, I wore a mask. But not just any mask—an N95 or well-fitted KN95. At first these were really hard to come by, but now it’s quite easy to find them. Here’s how you can find a good one: https://t.co/79DGaNpRfH

— Tanya Lewis (@tanyalewis314) December 16, 2022