Another Year, Another Wave: 10 Tips from a Top Scientist on How to Live with COVID in 2022

The last two years have been transformative for many of us. As an immigrant scientist of Indian origin living in the United States, throughout this pandemic, I shuttled between two countries that lead the world’s tally in terms of COVID-19 related deaths. With elderly parents in India and my own roots and work in the US, my life rode with the virus curves in these two countries. As I write this article, the US’s astronomic case trajectory from the Omicron wave is showing some signs of slowing down, while India’s is rising sharply. But even with vaccination, proper usage of high-quality masks is a must when you are in indoor large gatherings with people whose vaccination status you do not know or there is a new virus strain in active circulation.