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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. And in the end of May, no less. So the pandemic is extremely not over. Is it just me or does it feel like kind of everyone has COVID? Do we need another booster? Should we still be masking? Enough questions we're starting to pile up for us here at Nourdet that we thought we should check in with our friend, Dr. Emily Landon, or as we like to call her, Nurtet's resident epidemiologist.

She's an infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago.

Emily, welcome back.

Hey, happy to be here.

Happy to have you.

Not happy about the COVID numbers.

Yeah, man.

So, yeah, I have to tell you, we talked in, I think, like, early March.

And you were like, yeah, I'm feeling good.

Like, you know, masking.

Like, let's keep doing it. This is all right.

And then, like, two weeks later, I was in Canada with COVID.

It was a real bummer. Oh, I'm sorry.

Thank you.

So I would like us to start with Deanna, who's a nerd out listener, who had a really good question.

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