If you’re going to get COVID, make it count

Nerdette’s “resident epidemiologist” returns to give us her advice for navigating monkeypox and COVID-19.

By Greta Johnsen
If you’re going to get COVID, make it count. Women wearing face masks wait for the groom and bride during a wedding ceremony outside Manila’s Cathedral, Philippines.
Aaron Favila / Associated Press
If you’re going to get COVID, make it count. Women wearing face masks wait for the groom and bride during a wedding ceremony outside Manila’s Cathedral, Philippines.
Aaron Favila / Associated Press

If you’re going to get COVID, make it count

Nerdette’s “resident epidemiologist” returns to give us her advice for navigating monkeypox and COVID-19.

By Greta Johnsen
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Nerdette’s “resident epidemiologist” returns to equip us with all of the tools we need to deal with COVID-19 and monkeypox right now. Dr. Emily Landon is an infectious disease specialist at the University of Chicago. She answers listener questions about the latest CDC guidelines, the risk of contracting monkeypox at a nightclub, whether COVID is now considered endemic, and more.