"It's an endemic virus like the flu in the sense that we're going to live with this forever," he says. "We don't know how often it'll change, which new variant will come our way." The FDA has said they would like to go to a system where everybody would get an annual shot, kind of like we do for the flu.
The Biden administration said this week that it would end the public health emergency for Covid, a sign that federal officials believe that the pandemic has moved into a new, less dire phase.
The move carries both symbolic weight and real-world consequences for millions of Americans.
Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter for The New York Times.
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