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Public health questions remain as COVID emergency ends

After more than three years, the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended. Thanks to vaccines, testing and treatment, we are in a much better place and deaths are at their lowest level since March 2020. But concerns over how the federal government will respond to new variants or even a serious new epidemic remain. William Brangham discussed that with Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo.

Public health questions remain as COVID emergency ends

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