Is It Going to Get Worse?

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Omicron is genetically really different from the variants that came before. It's a little hard to say right now withonfide s that we're not going to see things get worse with this particular passage than ever. But we've all learned not to make promises about what will happen will with viral evolution, just because we've been surprised so many times in the past. So we gought to be prepared for anything.

Surging cases, Paxlovid rebounds, and apathy everywhere. Vox’s Dr. Keren Landman explains how to navigate the do-it-yourself era of the pandemic.

This episode was produced by Victoria Dominguez and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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