Covet 19 will not be eradicated, but it'll at least stop being a pandemic. Siala: The rate of infections has to pretty much stabilize in order to become endemic. She says the key determinate of when the pandemic phase will end is when we successfully vaccinate the globe.
The omicron variant is very transmissible, but it might make Covid-19 less miserable.
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 Haleema Shah.
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