While the country focuses on big and important issues like inflation and the price of gas, Friday’s CBS Mornings Another pressing problem was rediscovered: COVID. While most Americans have learned to live with the presence of the virus, Dr. Celine Gounder told the show’s hosts that people should prepare for “at least another year or two” before life gets back to normal.
Co-host Nate Burleson asked a relatively simple question, “Looking down the line, is—is– this going to become the norm? I have friends and family are asking me, ‘Nate are we going to be taking this many shots every single year?” What do you think?”
Fellow co-host Tony Dokoupil had the same concern, “When do you—like, I have a family member who wants to go to a funeral, it’s actually my mom actually, has COVID positive. She, her brother died. Now she can’t go and participate fully in the funeral on—on– Saturday because — when are we going to get to a point where people are like, you know what, it’s like the flu you can still do big, important things in your life that are—are– really — that matter?”
The answer for normal people is yes, now. You can stay at home if you’re sick. Otherwise, life will return to normal. But, Gounder was not there to provide advice to normal people, “You’re probably looking at least another year or two of, you know, more variants emerging, trying to match the vaccine to the variant, more boosters especially for older people, immunocompromised people. Eventually this will plateau and settle out. But we’re not quite there yet.”
Instead of offering pushback, co-host Dana Jacobson uncritically accepted Gounder’s proclamations, “Wow. Feels like we’ve been saying a couple of years for a couple of years, but Dr. Gounder, thank you. We appreciate it. We don’t blame you. We know that.”
You can also find other information here CBS Mornings, Dokoupil used January 6 to prove his racism against residents of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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This transcript is for the show on July 8.
CBS Mornings
7/8/2022
7.33 am ET
NATE BURLESON: Looking down the line, is—is– this going to become the norm? I have friends and family are asking me, “Nate—
DANA JACOBSON: When’s it the flu? When’s it, yeah.
BURLESON: –are we going to be taking this many shots every single year?” What do you think?
TONY DOKOUPIL: When do you—like, I have a family member who wants to go to a funeral, it’s actually my mom actually, has COVID positive. She, her brother died. Now she can’t go and participate fully in the funeral on—on– Saturday because — when are we going to get to a point where people are like, you know what, it’s like the flu—
BURELSON Right
DOKOUPIL: you can still do big, important things in your life that are—are– really — that matter?
BURLESON: Right.
CELINE GOUNDER: I think the, this is going to take a couple years.
BURELSON – Okay
GOUNDER: You’re probably looking at least another year or two of, you know, more variants emerging, trying to match the vaccine to the variant, more boosters especially for older people, immunocompromised people. Eventually this will plateau and settle out. We are not there yet.
JACOBSON: Wow. Feels like we’ve been saying a couple of years for a couple of years, but Dr. Gounder, thank you. We appreciate it. We don’t blame you. That’s what we know.
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