Vaccinations mean the pandemic is moving to a phase when behavior will depend on people’s individual tolerance for risk.Picnicking in a park in Philadelphia last month. Even epidemiologists, the most aware of all that can go wrong, are starting to do ordinary things again like gather with friends.Hannah Beier for The New York TimesEpidemiologists are starting to hug again.They’re also running errands, gathering outdoors with friends and getting haircuts in far greater numbers than before.What Epidemiologists Are Doing Now

Vaccinations mean the pandemic is moving to a phase when behavior will depend on people’s individual tolerance for risk.Picnicking in a park in Philadelphia last month. Even epidemiologists, the most aware of all that can go wrong, are starting to do ordinary things again like gather with friends.Hannah Beier for The New York TimesEpidemiologists are starting to hug again.They’re also running errands, gathering outdoors with friends and getting haircuts in far greater numbers than before.What Epidemiologists Are Doing Now