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COVID ain't over
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COVID ain't over

We're not done with the pandemic — yet. In the US, infections are up five-fold from a year ago, although both hospitalizations are down. Although COVID will likely become endemic sometime this year in some parts of the world, the virus will still rage on everywhere else.

Should China learn to live with COVID?
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Should China learn to live with COVID?

If omicron makes cases explode in China, the country's leaders will have to choose between weathering short-term or long-term pain. Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, predicts that sticking to the zero-COVID approach at all costs will hurt the Chinese and global economy. In his view, learning to live with the virus is the way to go.

Did “complacency” cause India’s COVID explosion?
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Did “complacency” cause India’s COVID explosion?


Bharka Dutt tries to explain why India's COVID story has taken such a stark turn from 2020 to 2021.

Does the arrival of Moderna’s vaccine mean we’re back to normal?
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Does the arrival of Moderna’s vaccine mean we’re back to normal?

"I think we're going to live with the pandemic for much of 2021, but I don't think it's a binary thing where we have a pandemic and everything's awful, or the pandemic's gone and everything is great again." Noubar Afeyan, co-founder of the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Moderna, levels with Ian Bremmer that even with a vaccine the pandemic will not be gone in a matter of day, weeks, or even months. But that doesn't mean that everything will be as bleak as it may feel now. Their conversation was part of the latest episode of GZERO World.

How pandemic fatigue is affecting global COVID response
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How pandemic fatigue is affecting global COVID response

It's spreading. Maybe even faster and wider than the virus itself: pandemic fatigue. As infection rates in the United States and Europe skyrocket, Ian Bremmer looks at how tired we've all become of the virus. And yet, the virus does not seem to get tired of us.