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In the News highlights media coverage featuring the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The Hill
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Are COVID-19's big waves over? Experts are split

Amesh Adalja and David Dowdy are quoted. 

Experts are split on whether the waning delta surge will be the last major COVID-19 wave to strike the U.S., as Americans grow eager for the pandemic to end after 19 months.

The Washington Post
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Experts weigh in on when the public health emergency should end

At some point, the pandemic emergency — both in its legal designation and its intense impact on daily life — will have to end. The U.S. is learning to live with an endemic virus, albeit one whose worst effects are blunted by the protection of vaccines and prior immunity.

Associated Press
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Biden vaccine mandate splits US on party lines: AP-NORC poll

A survey of Americans on President Joe Biden’s plan to require most workers to get either vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19 finds a deep and familiar divide: Democrats are overwhelmingly for it, while most Republicans are against it.

Axios
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What we can learn from D.C.'s breakthrough data

Since Jan. 14, D.C. has seen more than 4,000 breakthrough cases, roughly 2,500 of those were confirmed through testing and some 1,500 were self-reported cases. Overall breakthrough numbers are low: Less than 1% of vaccinated people in D.C. have developed a breakthrough case.