The news is filled with stores that can make you feel like the worst of the pandemic may be ending while there are other stories that can make you feel as if it’s not.
A sample from today’s headlines:
Coronavirus transmission rates are falling across California, bringing guarded optimism.
Officials say growing evidence that the surge spawned by the highly infectious Omicron variant is flattening.
Virus expert says Omicron infections nearing peak.
But then there are these headlines like these:
Hospitals see crush of patients and rise in COVID deaths among unvaccinated.
COVID surge leaves San Diego businesses understaffed and overworked.
The Dept of Homeland Security announced non-U.S. citizens entering through ports of entry will be required to fully vaccinated and provide proof.
Yes, we are clearly in a time of lots of hope but still lots of concern.
Wake up one day and it can feel like things are better.Wake up another day and you can get the feeling they’re not.
And that’s why mental health experts say the pandemic can mess with our lives, and bring ups and downs in our anxiety, our attitude and our behavior.
But as we all now approach the two-year mark of the official start of the pandemic, there is reason to be hopeful that the end is not too far off.
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