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New COVID Guidance, Variants and ‘Common Sense’: Living With the Coronavirus in 2024

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SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 21: Doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine and vaccination record cards await pediatric patients at UW Medical Center - Roosevelt on June 21, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

The California Department of Public Health issued new COVID-19 guidance last week, advising that people may return to school and work even if they test positive for the virus. We’ll talk about California’s recommendations, the new COVID variant known as JN.1 and the latest developments in treatment and prevention. And we’ll hear from you: How are you living with COVID in 2024?

Guests:

Dr. Celine Gounder, infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist at NYU and Bellevue; editor-at-large for Public Health at KFF Health News<br />

Dr. Shruti Gohil, associate medical director of epidemiology and infection prevention and professor of infectious diseases, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine<br />

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