Did the pandemic change our relationship to being sick?

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Our behaviors surrounding illness are stuck in a pre-pandemic era By Jamie Ducharme Health Correspondent I cringe when I remember how blasé I used to be about illness. I was that person who refused to stop going to work, the gym, or social events “just” because I had a cold. The COVID-19 pandemic completely changed my outlook on what’s acceptable to do while sick. But has a similar change happened across the U.S. population? Signs point to no, as I report in my latest story. While some experts feel the public has become more knowledgeable about and interested in health and disease, that attention hasn’t necessarily translated to drastically different behavior and cultural norms. Roughly the same percentage of U.S. workers have access to paid sick time now versus before the pandemic, and lots of people still show up to work sick, data show. Even a global pandemic, it seems, wasn’t enough to uproot long-standing ideas—like the ones I used to hold—that it’s best to suck it up and muscle through an illness. READ MORE   Share This Story

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ONE MORE STORY FROM ELSEWHERE When football feeds the heart and starves the brain Writing for the Washington Post, Kent Babb delves into the complex feelings of a tight group of  former Ivy-League football players confronting the reality of how the effects of concussions possibly claimed one of their own. The ex-college-athletes are navigating the question of how much allegiance they still have to a sport that brought them together but also irreparably damaged them. Read More »

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