"We've kind of become the basest versions of ourselves now and it seems like it's going to take a long time for us to bounce back," he says. "I think the tribalism and political polarization that we are seeing now is worse than it was back when the pandemic started."
Or at least the federal government is over spending money on it. Vox’s resident epidemiologist, Keren Landman, explains the end of the public health emergency.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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