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'Our lives can look like they did back in 2019' says pandemic expert, but only by taking steps today

COVID-19 experts and former presidential health advisors have outlined their vision of how to create a life where we're no longer scrambling to react to the pandemic but instead puts us out in front of it.
COVID-19 rapid antigen self-tests. (Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images)

As the pandemic goes into its third year, it’s time to work toward a new normal.

That’s the message from six prominent coronavirus experts — all of them former health advisors to President Biden who met with his COVID-19 advisory board — who say they’re frustrated with his administration’s response.

The group has written three articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association, outlining their vision of how to create a life where we’re no longer scrambling to react to the pandemic but

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