It might be time to draw up a new "risk budget", according to Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University. Weighing the risk and reward. Wen says the idea is to think about risk as being cumulative. "A lot of people may have this misunderstanding that if they're doing one thing that's risky when it comes to COVID, that they might as well let down their guard and do everything else, when actually, it's quite the opposite." Think of it like a regular budget: you only have a certain amount of risk to spend, so choose the things you want to prioritize. [These considerations apply to students, faculty, staff and institutions at large - ray]
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068584579/omicron-covid-cases-risk-budget
