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From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum.

I'm Nina Kim.

It's been just over a year since California essentially reopened.

The state made masking optional.

Schools and businesses dropped restrictions.

In that time, we've endured surges and virus mutations that made COVID more contagious than ever,

but thankfully deaths remained relatively low.

Now, it seems almost everyone who avoided infection in the pandemic's first two years has been getting it.

As we prepare to gather for the July 4th holiday, UCSF's Dr. Peter Chin Hong joins us to answer your questions about testing, treatments, and vaccine effectiveness.

This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

An advisory committee to the FDA has recommended that COVID vaccines be redesigned to better protect against the highly contagious Omicron subvariance.

Coronavirus cases have now reached the 10 million mark in California since the pandemic began, though that number is widely considered an undercount. And case

rates here remain high. Joining me now is Dr. Peter Chin Hong, Infectious Disease Specialist

at UC San Francisco Medical Center. Always appreciate having you on, Dr. Chin Hong.

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