Addressing the misconceptions around COVID-19 variants, including Omicron | 7.30

Political leaders and some epidemiologists believe that the number of daily new cases may be peaking in some of the eastern states, with some commentary even suggesting that it could mark the end of the pandemic, and that we are now going to enter a relatively harmless — a so-called endemic — phase. But as Norman Swan reports, that might not be the case.

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