1 Nine months and more than 290,000 deaths into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is facing a crisis within a crisis. In addition to contending with the spread of a highly contagious virus—and the overcrowded hospitals and overworked medical staff that come with it—we also have to deal with living alongside people still don’t think the pandemic is real and/or who refuse to participate in public health strategies, like wearing face masks. Advertisement We now have promising vaccines on our side, but it will be several months before the general public will have the opportunity to get immunized (and even them, some people will likely refuse to do so). And between now and then, we have to make it through the holidays