The second part is that it has given rise to a bunch of what I think of as quasi experts.

People with good titles who should know better, but who have used this moment to step in and say,

hey, I'm a professor at Harvard. And sure, you're a professor at Harvard, but you're like speaking

a lot of nonsense. You don't have any expertise in this topic because expertise is specific. So how do you, if you're a normal

American and how do you deal with that? That's the challenge is people are struggling to figure

out who are the real experts and who's just making it up. Welcome to the Death Panel.

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So as we've been covering quite closely on this show for quite a while, we are at a moment of cleavage in the United States pandemic response, and a lot of things have been changing quite quickly.

The CDC changed community risk guidelines in late February, turning a red map of the

United States yellow and green overnight and easing recommendations for masking indoors,

encouraging most people to go unmasked even when cases are still high.

And federal funding is running out for existing COVID programs, from ending free

monoclonal antibody therapies to scaling back already confirmed orders of antivirals

like Paxloid.

Free federal coverage for COVID-19 treatment and testing for the uninsured ends this week.

Congratulations.

Mission accomplished.

Yeah. So basically we're transitioning to the point now. I guess we're what the pandemic is just going to be a matter of

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