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Is COVID over?
FromThe Decibel
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20 minutes
Released:
May 15, 2023
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On May 5th the World Health Organization declared the end of the COVID-19 emergency. But what does that mean for the pandemic? How should we be thinking about the COVID virus now and what kind of risk are we still exposed to?It’s taken three years of social distancing, mask mandates, and varying degrees of lockdown to get to this stage, but what comes next is still a bit of a mysteryToday, Lisa Barrett, an infectious diseases specialist at Dalhousie University and a practicing clinician, how we can manage COVID now and where the disease could go from here.Questions? Comments? Ideas? Email us at thedecibel@globeandmail.com
Released:
May 15, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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