It’s not 2020, but COVID is still a health threat Jess Steier | September 11, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/11/its-not-2020-but-covid-is-still-a-health-threat/ Amom in my local parent group posted last week asking whether anyone else had recently had COVID. She’d just gotten over it, her seven-year-old had it now, and she said she hadn’t realized COVID was “still a thing.” Last I checked, the post had dozens of comments from parents expressing similar surprise. Gone are the days of 2020 and 2021, when we hung on every update, and I don’t think anyone wants those days back. But COVID is absolutely still around. So, is it surging right now, and what should our families do about it?