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Dr. Joseph Varon hugs and comforts a patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas. Picture: Nakamura/Getty Images

Day 87 

On Christmas Day, a friend puts her four-year-old son on the phone to thank me for a gift. He does his duty and she comes back on. “How come he sounds like Louis Armstrong?” I ask. That, she tells me, is thanks to my present. He played with nothing else and wore his voice out. She adds that, for once, he didn’t annoy his younger sister trying to nick her stuff, so the offering seems to be a success.