A lot has changed since mid-March when we sat down to pen our editorial note for the July issue. At the time, some four hundred thousand people had been infected with COVID-19. As of this writing in early July, that figure has increased almost thirty-fold, to more than eleven million. The ensuing months have provided definitive answers to some of the questions we posed—no, the virus will not attenuate with warm weather—even if they are not the answers for which we had hoped. Others have yet to be answered. Indeed, as we have adjusted in our daily lives to the imposition of a rapidly replicating, single strand of ribonucleic acid, new questions have arisen, rendering what passes for a new normal more than a little unsteady.

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自3月中旬我们坐下来撰写7月份刊物的社论以来，发生了许多变化。当时，约有40万人感染了COVID-19。截至7月初撰写本文时，该数字已增长了近30倍，超过一千一百万。随后的几个月为我们提出的一些问题提供了明确的答案-不，即使温暖的天气，病毒也不会减弱-即使它们不是我们希望的答案。其他尚未回答。的确，随着我们在日常生活中适应于快速复制的单链核糖核酸的强加，新的问题出现了，使新常态所经历的事情变得有些不稳定。