The Winter Covet Pandemic Is Coming for the U.S.

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Dillon scott, your senior correspondent covering health care here at vax omacron is coming for the united states. It's already here. What's president biden's plan to deal with it? Dillon: "I hope this is a moment we can do what we haven't been able to do enough of through this whole pandemic"

Thanks to South Africa, the world now has some data on omicron’s severity, transmissibility, and whether or not the vaccines will protect us from it.

Today’s show was produced by Miles Bryan with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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