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Opinion Need some good news about covid-19? Here are six reasons for optimism.

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July 14, 2020 at 1:43 p.m. EDT
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, at a Senate subcommittee hearing on the plan to research, manufacture and distribute a coronavirus vaccine on July 2 in Washington. (Saul Loeb/AP)

Joseph G. Allen is an assistant professor of exposure assessment science, director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-author of “Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity.”

These days of rising cases, hospitalizations and now surging deaths can be overwhelming. To help get through this storm, we must keep track of positive developments, too.