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Maddie Sify here with NPR Health Correspondent Rob Steint, Hi Rob.

Hey there Maddie.

Rob, can I just say, I am so incredibly tired.

I mean, we are both of us are so lucky to be able to work from home and it is still such

a huge mental and emotional toll.

And it seems like every time things start to look up, we have a surge happen and the

cases creep back down and it's not long before we're alarmingly higher than normal for

Colorado virus cases.

It's been a lot.

Yeah, 100%.

I mean, right now, coronavirus cases look like they're still dropping in the US, but what

they're dropping to is still much higher than some of my worst fears for when we were

at the height of the pandemic in this country, the surge in New York back in March of last

year.

But I spent the last few weeks talking to infectious disease experts epidemiologists,

public health officials and even medical historians to try to get a sense of when might the

real end finally come.

And honestly, Maddie, I was surprised with what I heard.

So today with the help of many experts, we try to understand where we are headed.

And for the first time, many leading experts are telling me that the worst of the pandemic

could finally be over for the United States and the end could be inside.

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