WHEN DOES A PANDEMIC BECOME AN EPIDEMIC?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Looks like Herd Immunity is off the table and we are never returning to normal. Why isn't America doing Vaccine Passports so the safe people can enter the economy and the ones who choose not to be can stay home? Epidemiologist and Health Economist, Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding when does a pandemic become an endemic?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.6 | And greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers |
| 0:20.7 | in peace, freedom, and the American way Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:24.6 | To start out, Dr. Eric Feigelding is with us. |
| 0:26.8 | The epidemiologist and health economist, he's an adjunct senior fellow with the American |
| 0:31.1 | Federation of Scientists, formerly a faculty member and researcher at the Harvard Medical |
| 0:35.4 | School and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. |
| 0:39.6 | You can follow him on Twitter, which is where I hang on his every pronouncement. |
| 0:44.0 | At Dr. Eric Ding, ERICDING, DR, ERICDING, over on Twitter. |
| 0:51.3 | One of the must follow Twitter posters out there. |
| 0:54.2 | Dr. Feigelding, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:56.2 | It's great to have you with us. |
| 0:58.0 | Can you describe for us the difference between something being pandemic and something being |
| 1:03.2 | endemic? |
| 1:04.2 | Because it seems to me that coronavirus is on the verge of becoming endemic. |
| 1:09.8 | Unless I'm misunderstanding that word. |
| 1:12.5 | Right. |
| 1:13.5 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:14.5 | I think epidemic and pandemic obviously talks about the rising of a new virus, a pandemic |
| 1:23.0 | being a global version of a new virus. |
| 1:26.3 | But the issue with endemic means it's been with us for so long that it just lived with |
| 1:36.0 | us. |
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