What Next TBD: How COVID Changes Our Immune Systems

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Last fall it seemed like everyone got sick—not just with COVID, but from a slew of respiratory diseases, from the mild to the severe. Researchers are trying to untangle how our immune systems have changed in the COVID era, and if we’re paying back an “immunity debt” or are victims of “immunity theft.” Guest: Tim Requarth, contributing writer to Slate. Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video.
0:33.6	Earlier this week, the Biden administration made an announcement about COVID.
0:38.0	The White House is putting an end to the COVID public health emergency.
0:41.6	That's right. The Biden administration's emergency declaration will end on May 11th.
0:46.1	This is the country looks to get away from treating COVID as a national crisis and instead go toward treating it like a seasonal illness.
0:54.1	The U.S. has been in public health emergency mode since late January of 2020.
1:00.5	And the move to wind that down over the next few months will put an end to many of the free things,
1:07.0	tests, vaccines and treatments that Americans have gotten used to. It's also a way for the administration
1:12.8	to get ahead of two GOP bills that would end the emergency declaration right away and provide
1:19.6	an orderly off-ramp for hospitals and health care systems. Without question, the country has vastly more tools to fight COVID than it used to.
1:33.0	And more than half of us, according to one recent survey, have already had the virus.
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