In a recent Quinnipiac poll, people were asked the most urgent issue facing the country. COVID-19 came in dead last among 13 options.

And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just relaxed its guidelines. Again.

But cases.html">more than 400 Americans are dying each day, and the long Omicron surge continues.

There’s still a pandemic going on. This hour, we look at what’s going on with the pandemic.

GUESTS:

• Rachel Gutman-Wei: Senior associate editor at The Atlantic
• Jonathan McNicol: The producer of this very episode of this very show
• Saad Omer: Professor of medicine and the epidemiology of microbial diseases at Yale and director of the Yale Institute for Global Health
• Julia Pistell: A freelance producer on The Colin McEnroe Show, among a number of other things
• Catie Talarski: Senior director of storytelling and radio programming at Connecticut Public
• Ulysses Wu: System director of infectious diseases and chief epidemiologist at Hartford HealthCare

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