Here’s a taste of what you’ll experience the next time you’re at the dentist

• The latest coronavirus update from White House health advisor Dr. Deborah Birx is that the US is entering a new phase of the pandemic, one that sees the virus now "extraordinarily widespread" around the country.
• What that means is we're going to increasingly see precautions and protective measures all around us as people try to resume normal activities they feel comfortable with.
• Here's what I experienced on a recent trip to the dentist, for the first time since the pandemic began.

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The question of whether to reopen schools this fall, if such a thing can even be done safely at all, is nowhere close to being settled right now, with experts continuing to offer conflicting guidance around the country as the US remains in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, there's something deeper that's inherent in these contentious debates about the fate of the school year, and it's much larger than the idea of classrooms and bringing kids back into educational institutions. What we're really grappling with here is the much more fundamental challenge of how to increasingly go about our lives with the coronavirus still raging around us -- still infecting new people, still causing people to be hospitalized, and, sadly, still killing so many Americans. Because in the absence of a vaccine, which experts like White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci assure us is still months away at the earliest, each of us has to figure out what degree of risk in our personal lives we're willing to tolerate, whether you're ok with eating at restaurants, shopping inside a grocery store, getting on a plane, sending your kid back to school ... or, in my case, visiting my dentist's office, which I did for the first time last week since the pandemic began.

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