Is the Pandemic Over If We Decide It Is? (with David Ho)

As mask mandates and vaccine requirements go away and life starts to look similar to the way it did in February 2020, Andy talks with world-renowned virologist David Ho, who says his career has been defined by two pandemics: HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. David tells Andy what he makes of people relaxing their precautions, how long he thinks COVID will remain problematic for us as a society, and what future vaccines and therapies could look like. Plus, David recounts his decades researching HIV/AIDS, which led to him being named TIME Magazine's Person of the Year in 1996.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

• Read more about Hawaii’s decision to end their universal indoor mask mandate, the 50th and final state to do so: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/08/world/covid-19-mandates-cases-vaccine/hawaii-will-drop-its-mask-mandate-the-last-state-to-do-so
• Check out the issue of TIME Magazine from 1996 in which David was named “Man of the Year”: https://time.com/vault/issue/1996-12-30/page/1/
• Read more about the study David co-authored about vaccine and antibody treatment effectiveness in the three Omicron subvariants: https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/vaccine-and-antibody-treatment-effectiveness-blunted-all-three-omicron-subvariants
• Order free at-home COVID-19 tests through the USPS: https://special.usps.com/testkits
• Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
• Order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165

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